A Century Before Akbar, Indian Mathematicians Had Pushed Their Calculations

question 60

Multiple Choice

A century before Akbar, Indian mathematicians had pushed their calculations of the value of pi to within nine decimal places, and expanded their facility with trigonometry to the point that some of the fundamental concepts of infinite series and _________ had been worked out.

• A) algebra
• B) geometry
• C) calculus
• D) scientific notation

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Definitions:

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