The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near...

village is notable for being the location of what is now known as the Bakhshali manuscript. This is an ancient mathematical work written on birch bark and is...

orally and in manuscript form. The oldest extant mathematical document produced on the Indian subcontinent is the birch bark Bakhshali Manuscript, discovered...

in the Punjab in Pakistan, and dated to the 5th century CE. The Bakhshali manuscript consists of seventy birch bark fragments written in Sanskrit and...

to a square root was described in an ancient Indian manuscript, called the Bakhshali manuscript. It is equivalent to two iterations of the Babylonian...

precursor of the still-current hollow symbol, is used throughout the Bakhshali manuscript, a practical manual on arithmetic for merchants. In 2017, researchers...

"The Bakhshali manuscript". The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Retrieved 24 July 2007. Hayashi, Takao (2008), "Bakhshālī Manuscript", in Helaine...

the tens (10, 20, 30, etc.). The place-value system is used in the Bakhshali manuscript; the earliest leaves being radiocarbon dated to the period AD 224–383...

"missing place", such as a dot. The single manuscript with worked examples available to us, the Bakhshali manuscript (of unclear date), uses a place value...

1007/s10781-005-8153-z. S2CID 170783929. Hayashi, Takao (1995). The Bakhshālī Manuscript: An Ancient Indian Mathematical Treatise. Groningen, Netherlands:...