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les on thefloors of ancient temples. If theywere arranged as here shown, theproposition would be evident forthe special case of an isoscelesright triangle. The Hindus knew the propositionlong before Bhaskara, however,and possibly before Pythagoras.It is referred to in the old religiouspoems of the… … !See, for example, G. B. Kaye, The Source of Hindu Mathe-matics, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July, 1910. LEADING PROPOSITIONS OF BOOK IV 263 a collection of rules, without proofs, for constructingvarious figures. Among these is one for constructingright angles by stretching cords…
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