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    The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near...
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  • village is notable for being the location of what is now known as the Bakhshali manuscript. This is an ancient mathematical work written on birch bark and is...
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  • orally and in manuscript form. The oldest extant mathematical document produced on the Indian subcontinent is the birch bark Bakhshali Manuscript, discovered...
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    in the Punjab in Pakistan, and dated to the 5th century CE. The Bakhshali manuscript consists of seventy birch bark fragments written in Sanskrit and...
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  • to a square root was described in an ancient Indian manuscript, called the Bakhshali manuscript. It is equivalent to two iterations of the Babylonian...
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    precursor of the still-current hollow symbol, is used throughout the Bakhshali manuscript, a practical manual on arithmetic for merchants. In 2017, researchers...
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    "The Bakhshali manuscript". The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Retrieved 24 July 2007. Hayashi, Takao (2008), "Bakhshālī Manuscript", in Helaine...
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    the tens (10, 20, 30, etc.). The place-value system is used in the Bakhshali manuscript; the earliest leaves being radiocarbon dated to the period AD 224–383...
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  • 1007/s10781-005-8153-z. S2CID 170783929. Hayashi, Takao (1995). The Bakhshālī Manuscript: An Ancient Indian Mathematical Treatise. Groningen, Netherlands:...
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  • "missing place", such as a dot. The single manuscript with worked examples available to us, the Bakhshali manuscript (of unclear date), uses a place value...
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    v t e Indian mathematics Mathematicians Treatises Aryabhatiya Bakhshali manuscript Bijaganita Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta Ganita Kaumudi Kanakkusaram Karanapaddhati...
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    of Takht-i-Bahi was established as a monastery around 46 CE. The Bakhshali manuscript, which contains the earliest record of the use of the number 0 in...
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  • The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated between the 2nd century BC and the 2nd century AD...
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    the west." The place-value system, first seen in the 3rd-century Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in place in his work. While he did not use a symbol...
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  • finding algorithm with quartic convergence, known as the Bakhshali method (after the Bakhshali manuscript which records it), is discovered in India. By the 4th...
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  • the Bakhshali manuscript, there are a handful of geometric problems (including problems about volumes of irregular solids). The Bakhshali manuscript also...
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  • theorem. 350 – 415 – Eastern Roman Empire, Hypatia c. 400 – India, the Bakhshali manuscript, which describes a theory of the infinite containing different levels...
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  • denote zero, in a decimal system, in the Bakhshali manuscript. The usage of the zero in the Bakhshali manuscript was dated from between 3rd and 4th centuries...
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  • be a variant arising from a mistake in a medieval manuscript, which is the source of later manuscripts. Balogh disputes Shastri's assertion that Varāhamihira...
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  • theorem Euclid's Elements Measurement of a Circle Indian mathematics Bakhshali manuscript Modern geometry History of analytic geometry History of the Cartesian...
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    as Hinduism became the dominant religion in the region again. The Bakhshali manuscript uses an early stage of the Sharada script. The Sharada script was...
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    the Bakhshali manuscript, there is a handful of geometric problems (including problems about volumes of irregular solids). The Bakhshali manuscript also...
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  • v t e Indian mathematics Mathematicians Treatises Aryabhatiya Bakhshali manuscript Bijaganita Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta Ganita Kaumudi Kanakkusaram Karanapaddhati...
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  • created by Mesrob Mashtots c. 405 The first use of Zero found in Bakhshali manuscript in India A History of the English Language (D. Appleton-Century Company...
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    Century) Bakhshali manuscript, Bower Manuscript and Weber Manuscript of ancient Sanskrit texts (4th-6th Centuries) Bruce Codex, Coptic manuscript, one of...
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    S2CID 121753215. Posthumously published extract of a longer, unpublished manuscript. George E. Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt, Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part...
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  • 2 a . {\displaystyle x={\frac {{\sqrt {4ac+b^{2}}}-b}{2a}}.} The Bakhshali Manuscript written in India in the 7th century AD contained an algebraic formula...
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