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A219022
Āryabhaṭa's sine table. (Also Aryabhata or आर्यभट.)
0
225, 449, 671, 890, 1105, 1315, 1520, 1719, 1910, 2093, 2267, 2431, 2585, 2728, 2859, 2978, 3084, 3177, 3256, 3321, 3372, 3409, 3431, 3438
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
A kardagia used to mean an arc of circle being the 96th part of the full circumference, that is 3°45' or 225 minutes, which is the arc the Hindus considered equal to its sine.
Each number in the table is called a jyapinda.
REFERENCES
M. Davis, On the astronomical calculations of the Hindus, Asiatick researches, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India), 1807, Vol. II, p. 245-249.
LINKS
J. Playfair, On the trigonometry of the Brahmins, The works of John Playfair, 1822, Vol III, p. 256-276. (Originally published in 1798.)
M. Woepke, Sur le mot kardaga et sur une méthode indienne pour calculer les sinus, Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, Sér. 1, 13 (1854), p. 386-394.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A216419 A246199 A147276 * A193003 A287298 A117246
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,full
AUTHOR
Michel Marcus, Nov 10 2012
STATUS
approved