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INDIAN MATHEMATICS.

squares, and those extracted from the sum and difference increased by two, and that extracted from the difference of their squares added to eight, being all five added together may yield a square-root—excepting, however, six and eight? V. 190.

Answersx=8; 1677/4; 15128, etc.; y=6, 41; 246, etc.


L=the Līlāvatī, V=Vīja Gaņita, both by Bhāskara, M=Mahāvīra, S=Srīdhara, C=Chaturveda.