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1500–1560 India

Sankara Variyar (c. 1500 - c. 1560) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. His family were employed as temple-assistants in the temple at Tṛkkuṭaveli near modern Ottapalam.

India
Astronomers
Mathematicians

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The diameter multiplied by four and divided by unity (is found and saved). Again the products of the diameter and four are divided by the odd numbers like three, five, etc., and the results are subtracted and added in order.

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