9 ;;Quote: ten has always been the basis of numeration in India

9 ;;Quote: India used immense numbers from ancient times; for example, the Hindus used 18 denominations and in the Lalitavistara, tallaksana is 10^53

38 ;;Quote: the decimal number system appears to be of Hindu origin sometime before 595 A.D.; only India switched from the old system to the new one using the same numerical signs

53 ;;Quote: India has a place-value system of word numerals; 1 is anything markedly unique, e.g., the moon, the earth; 0 is denoted by words meaning void, sky, complete; still used today

75 ;;Quote: the earliest known use of the zero symbol is by Pingala (before 200 B.C.)

75+;;Quote: Pingala (before 200 B.C.) gives an algorithm for computing the total number of arrangements of two things in n places

126 ;;Quote: in India, conciseness of composition, especially in scientific matters, was highly prized; more pronounced in earlier works

126 ;;Quote: description of early, Indian instruction in arithmetic: memorized problems and solutions; calculated by writing in dust spread on a board

130 ;;Quote: all arithmetical operations resolve to increase and decrease, i.e., addition and subtraction

175 ;;Quote: first description of an algorithm for computing the cube-root

185 ;;Quote: in India, the knowledge of fractions can be traced to very early times

208 ;;Quote: the Hindus admired the Rule of Three for its simple and universal solution of proportion problems

234 ;;Quote: Aryabhata (499) gave a solution for quadratic equations. Here is a sample problem

239 ;;Quote: the Hindus define zero as the result of a-a

243 ;;Quote: Bhaskara II (1150): in a/0 there is no alteration, as no change takes place in the infinite and immutable God