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Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Bhaskaracharya, Budhayana, Sridharacharya


→Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun
hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the
sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
→Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and he explained the concept of what
is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long
before the European mathematicians
→Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India; Quadratic equations were
by Sridharacharya in the 11th century; The largest numbers the Greeks and the
Romans used were 10 6(10 to the power of 6) whereas Hindus Used numbers as big
as 1053 (10 to the power of 53) with specific names as Early as 5000 BCE during

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