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by sundars 2653 days ago
Pi in ancient india https://souravroy.com/2011/01/07/pi-in-indian-mathematics/
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> They didn’t call it Pi though.

Which goes against the whole article anyway, since Jones didn't invent, or claim to invent, the concept of Pi either, that'd be a 3-way shootout between ancient indians, chinese or egyptians, Jones just assigned it the name Pi.

It's sad that some Indians leaders and followers ignore these achievement and just try to claim they had hi-tech internet in ancient days .https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/india...