Indian Mathematics c12.s2.84

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c12.s2.84

40. From a tree a hundred *hastas* high, a monkey descended and went to a pond two hundred *hastas* distant, while another monkey, jumping a certain height off the tree, proceeded quickly diagonally to the same spot. If the space travelled by them be equal, tell me quickly, learned man, the height of the leap, if thou hast diligently studied calculation ?

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