Mathematical feats of Ancient India

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>Bal Ram Singh <bsingh

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>Mathematical feats of Ancient India

>Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:27:08 -0500

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>Dear Colleagues and Friends,

>

>I just came across the following information mathematics in India, which is

>truly amazing. What kind of application could these mathematical feats

>might have been involved in? Is it possible to develop modern scientific

>approaches to unravel the conceptual thinking of those times when such

>mathematical prowess was in the use?

>

>In any case, the information is worth archiving for future references.

>

>Regards,

>

>Bal Ram Singh

>

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>Mathematics

>

>The Decimal

>

>100BCE the Decimal system flourished in India

>"It was India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers

>by means of ten symbols (Decimal System)….a profound and important idea

>which escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest

>men produced by antiquity."

>-La Place

>

>Raising 10 to the Power of 53

>

>The highest prefix used for raising 10 to a power in today’s maths is ‘D’

>for 10 to a power of 30 (from Greek Deca). While, as early as 100 BCE

>Indian Mathematicians had exact names for figures upto 10 to the power of

>53.

>ekam =1

>dashakam =10

>shatam =100 (10 to the power of 10)

>sahasram =1000 (10 power of 3)

>dashasahasram =10000 (10 power of 4)

>lakshaha =100000 (10 power of 5)

>dashalakshaha =1000000 (10 power of 6)

>kotihi =10000000 (10 power of 7)

>ayutam =1000000000 (10 power of 9)

>niyutam = (10 power of 11)

>kankaram = (10 power of 13)

>vivaram = (10 power of 15)

>paraardhaha = (10 power of 17)

>nivahaaha = (10 power of 19)

>utsangaha = (10 power of 21)

>bahulam = (10 power of 23)

>naagbaalaha = (10 power of 25)

>titilambam = (10 power of 27)

>vyavasthaana

>pragnaptihi = (10 power of 29)

>hetuheelam = (10 power of 31)

>karahuhu = (10 power of 33)

>hetvindreeyam = (10 power of 35)

>samaapta lambhaha = (10 power of 37)

>gananaagatihi) = (10 power of 39)

>niravadyam = (10 power of 41)

>mudraabaalam = (10 power of 43)

>sarvabaalam = (10 power of 45)

>vishamagnagatihi = (10 power of 47)

>sarvagnaha = (10 power of 49)

>vibhutangamaa = (10 power of 51)

>tallaakshanam = (10 power of 53)

>

>(In Anuyogdwaar Sutra written in 100 BCE one

>numeral is raised as high as 10 to the power of 140).

>

>

>Source:

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>http://www.hinduism.co.za/amazing.htm#Amazing%20Science(Part%203)

>

>

>Bal Ram Singh, Ph.D.

>Director, Center for Indic Studies

>University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

>285 Old Westport Road

>Dartmouth, MA 02747

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>Phone: 508-999-8588

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>Email: bsingh

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>Internet address: http://www.umassd.edu/indic

 

 

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