Aryabhata · Mathematics
Aryabhata’s strikingly accurate value of pi - 3.1416, correct to four places - and the single word <em>asanna</em>, ‘approaching,’ with which he may have signalled that the true ratio can never be exactly caught.
You learned that Aryabhata computed the circumference-to-diameter ratio as 62,832 to 20,000, that is 3.1416, accurate to four decimal places, and that he described it with the word asanna (‘approaching’), which some scholars read as a hint that pi is irrational. Explain the achievement and the meaning of t…
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