The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c8.13

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c8.13

The latitudes are here given in four different ways: (i) in degrees, (ii) in length of longest day (in ghaṭis and palas), (iii) in length of the equinoctial shadow or tanφ, (iv) by the hypotenuse of the equinoctial shadow or sinφ.

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