• his Āryabhatiyabhāṣya, who gave the algorithm the name Kuṭṭaka. In Sanskrit, the word Kuṭṭaka means pulverization (reducing to powder), and it indicates...
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    problems, elaborated by Bhaskara in 621 CE, is called the kuṭṭaka (कुट्टक) method. Kuṭṭaka means "pulverizing" or "breaking into small pieces", and the...
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    Sunzi's solution: it is the problem that was later solved by Āryabhaṭa's Kuṭṭaka – see below.) There is also some numerical mysticism in Chinese mathematics...
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    equations including (the now called) Pell's equation, solving it using a kuṭṭaka method. In particular, he also solved the 61 x 2 + 1 = y 2 {\displaystyle...
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    progressions, plane geometry, solid geometry, the shadow of the gnomon, the Kuṭṭaka - a method to solve indeterminate equations, and combinations. Bhaskara...
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  • Ganita Kaumudi (Sanskrit: गणितकौमदी) is a treatise on mathematics written by Indian mathematician Narayana Pandita in 1356. It was an arithmetical treatise...
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    (shanku-chhAyA); and simple, quadratic, simultaneous, and indeterminate equations (Kuṭṭaka). Kalakriyapada (25 verses): different units of time and a method for determining...
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    via ad-hoc methods such as Størmer's theorem or even trial and error. Kuṭṭaka, Aryabhata's algorithm for solving linear Diophantine equations in two...
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  • mathematics (Ank Ganit). Algebra. Solutions of indeterminate equations (kuttaka). Shripati Shripati Mishra (1019–1066) wrote the books Siddhanta Shekhara...
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  • treatise in Sanskrit devoted exclusively to the study of the Kuṭṭākāra, or Kuṭṭaka, an algorithm for solving linear Diophantine equations. It is authored...
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