Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c8.13

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c8.13

Bhaskara invented the art of placing the numerator over the denominator in a fraction. He invented also √ (the radical sign). This was not known in Europe before Chuquet and Rudolff in the sixteenth century.

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