From: Mermaid . (britannica@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 06 2002 - 22:05:19 MST
[Hermit] No lass, you are doing it all by yourself and if not trying to
"promote 'Vedic Mathematics' [ed. Rational translation = 'Horseshit']" you
are doing a very bad job of not attempting to do so.
[Mermaid]Its your word against mine about my intentions. *I* havent come to
any conclusions without studying the subject.
[Hermit] Because the works give PI as "For example in the Baudhayana
Sulbasutra, as well as the value of 676/225, there appears 900/289 and
1156/361. In different Sulbasutras the values 2.99, 3.00, 3.004, 3.029,
3.047, 3.088, 3.1141, 3.16049 and 3.2022 can all be found; see [6]. In [3]
the value = 25/8 = 3.125 is found in the Manava Sulbasutras."
[Mermaid]Where are you quoting this from....
[Mermaid]Sulbasutras were written by different people at different periods
of time. Sulbasutras is not an Indian creation or 'invention'. They were
different versions written by different scribes from the material that has
been passed down from one generation to the next. They give rules for the
construction of the sacrificial altars. They do NOT contain mathematical
proofs for the rules re constructing the altars.
[Mermaid]There has been no claim that the Sulbasutras were accurate
mathematical treatises. These seem to be distinctly different from the 16
Ganita Sutras which have to memorised so that any kind of mathematical
calculation can be made with any number of digits.
[Mermaid]Nevertheless, the 16 rules of Thirthaji has not been proved wrong.
It is not a 'code' as you claim. Not that you have any qualification to do
that, considering you neither know Sanskrit nor have you read the work nor
have you conducted a scientific study to prove that the rules do not work.
Most importantly, you have been attempting to include the 'religious' and
'faith' and 'belief' angles...key words that would repel the audience here
so that they would take a position against anything that is associated with
the word, 'vedic'..like Kirk did...let us not forget that you are yet to
prove to anyone that this has anything..whatsoever... to do with religion
or belief or prophecies of any kind...
[Hermit] So they didn't fucking understand the nature of PI - never mind its
value to a number of places that it took another 4000 years to determine. So
they couldn't make up mnemonics to remember it. That's why.
[Mermaid]Ganita Sutras doesnt seem to be a study of Pi. But why do you keep
brining up Sulbasutras??? The sloka that Yash references was to remember
whatever the value of Pi <or whatever Pi represented> was upto 32 places..it
was not a formula for the determination of Pi. It IS an Mneumonic aid...
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