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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by dkga on Monday December 22, 2025 @07:18AM (#46353579)
I don’t know if it’s related to Western-centrism or not, but I recall thinking it was weird that my English-speaking colleagues do not know the formula to solve second-degree polynomials as the “Bhaskara formula”, as we call it in Brazil.

By the way, Wolfram’s website has an interesting summary of the history of this formula.[0]

[0]: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuadraticEquation.html

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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by srean on Monday December 22, 2025 @07:41AM (#46353712)
Interesting that it is called Bhaskara formula.

In India and also in general it's called Sridharacharya formula or method. It's named after the Indian algebraist Sridhar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhara

whom Bhaskara quotes extensively.

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