Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c9.14

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c9.14

Bhaskara took care to explain that though Aryabhata and others knew the exact value of π, yet some later mathematicians took approximate values only for convenience of calculation. "It is not that they did not know." Thus Brahmagupta took π=3 roughly (or √10 closely) "for lessening the labor of calculation."

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