Bhaskara
[ bäs′kə-rə ]
Indian mathematician who wrote the first work that showed a systematic use of the decimal system.
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The charter was given in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of the donor Bhaskara Ravi Varma.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India | Edgar ThurstonThe Hindus knew the proposition long before Bhaskara, however, and possibly before Pythagoras.
The Teaching of Geometry | David Eugene Smith
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