Indian Mathematics c12.s2.4

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c12.s2.4

2. The quarter of a sixteenth of the fifth of three-quarters of two-thirds of half a *dramma* was given to a beggar by a person from whom he asked alms. Tell how many cowries the miser gave if thou be conversant in arithmetic with the reduction termed sub-division of fractions?

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