Indian Mathematics c12.s2.81

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c12.s2.81

38. If a bamboo measuring thirty-two *hastas* and standing upon level ground be broken in one place by the force of the wind and the tip of it meet the ground at sixteen *hastas*, say, mathematician, at how many *hastas* from the root it is broken ?

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