• Thumbnail for Bakhshali manuscript
    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...
    20 KB (2,148 words) - 20:42, 8 September 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (135 words) - 15:02, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Birch bark manuscript
    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...
    23 KB (2,541 words) - 08:41, 4 September 2024
  • orally and in manuscript form. The oldest extant mathematical document produced on the Indian subcontinent is the birch bark Bakhshali Manuscript, discovered...
    116 KB (14,795 words) - 21:51, 27 September 2024
  • to a square root was described in an ancient Indian manuscript, called the Bakhshali manuscript. It is equivalent to two iterations of the Babylonian...
    69 KB (11,849 words) - 20:41, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Negative number
    "The Bakhshali manuscript". The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Retrieved 24 July 2007. Hayashi, Takao (2008), "Bakhshālī Manuscript", in Helaine...
    38 KB (4,596 words) - 20:00, 30 September 2024
  • 0
    precursor of the still-current hollow symbol, is used throughout the Bakhshali manuscript, a practical manual on arithmetic for merchants. In 2017, researchers...
    75 KB (8,228 words) - 08:39, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hindu–Arabic numeral system
    than the Brahmi numerals. The place-value system is used in the Bakhshali manuscript; the earliest leaves being radiocarbon dated to the period AD 224–383...
    29 KB (2,624 words) - 17:37, 23 September 2024
  • the Bakhshali manuscript, a practical manual on arithmetic for merchants, discovered in Northern Pakistan. In 2017, three samples from the manuscript were...
    23 KB (2,511 words) - 19:47, 23 September 2024
  • 1007/s10781-005-8153-z. S2CID 170783929. Hayashi, Takao (1995). The Bakhshālī Manuscript: An Ancient Indian Mathematical Treatise. Groningen, Netherlands:...
    27 KB (2,885 words) - 20:28, 7 September 2024