Vargamūla
Vargamūla refers to square roots. It is composed of two words - varga , meaning ‘square’ and mūla meaning ‘root’. It is one of the eight parikarmas or basic operations, as reckoned by Indian treatises in mathematics. Throughout history, like most computations, this was also done manually, hence the procedure for these is specified in treatises. The procedure is as follows: Mark the digits in the number as odd and even from left to right Pick the greatest possible square numb
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Varga
Varga refers to squaring. It is one of the parikarmas or basic operations as reckoned in Indian treatises on mathematics. Squaring is a simple operation - multiply a number by itself. It is also well known. However, it is also one of the most heavily used operations. It is required at a fundamental level in geometry to find the area of various figures. Practically speaking, it occurs in numerous problems in Indian texts related to mathematics and astronomy, such as the comput
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