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Post by rawemotions Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:04 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakravala_method

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Selenius, in his assessment of the chakravala method, states
"The method represents a best approximation algorithm of minimal length that, owing to several minimization properties, with minimal effort and avoiding large numbers automatically produces the best solutions to the equation. The chakravala method anticipated the European methods by more than a thousand years. But no European performances in the whole field of algebra at a time much later than Bhaskara's, nay nearly equal up to our times, equalled the marvellous complexity and ingenuity of chakravala."
Hermann Hankel calls the chakravala method
"the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before Lagrange."

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