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Ancient Bharat's Forgotten Scientists & Mathematicians
Pingala's Binary System
Acharya Pingala is said to have lived around 400-200 BC, maybe earlier and is believed to be the brother of the well known Sanskrit grammarian MahaRishi Pāṇini.
Ancient Bharat's Forgotten Scientists & Mathematicians
Pingala's Binary System
Acharya Pingala is said to have lived around 400-200 BC, maybe earlier and is believed to be the brother of the well known Sanskrit grammarian MahaRishi Pāṇini.
Acharya Pingala discovered the immense possibilities of Binary numbers quite by accident, which today are used for Computing language. He was working on the meter or Chandah of Vedas. Our Vedas were composed in meters or Chandah.
Most Indian Languages have the Deerga or long swar and the Laghu or short swar. This combination of long and short sounds is the basis of Sanskrit prosody or meter or chandah. In 200 BCE, a work called Chandahsastra was authored by Pingala, the Mathematician.
Chandaḥśāstra means the science of meters as used in poetry/ music in which it is recited in Vedic mantras. While studying chandah, he stumbled on the concept of the Binary number system.
Acharya Pingala, by working on the algorithm of different possibilities of laghu and guru swar, unwittingly discovered the different patterns of Binary numbers; a notation similar to Morse code.
He developed a technique of Pratyay or an algorithm, Prastaar for all possible combinations of a syllable.
The Chandahsastra, written by Pingala, the Mathematician, has eight chapters, and these mathematical combinations and sequences are mentioned in the 8th chapter.
The Chandahsastra, written by Pingala, the Mathematician, has eight chapters, and these mathematical combinations and sequences are mentioned in the 8th chapter.
It took thousands of centuries for this knowledge to reach Europe. In the town of Pisa in Italy, Leonardo, better known as Fibonacci, learnt the use of Binary numbers from Arabs. He was particular to mention that the Arabs had brought it from India.
But his successors chose to call it as Arabic numerals and was later called Fibonacci series. The Fibonacci number was initially called Mātrāmeru, by Pingala. Pingala is also credited with the binomial theorem for the index 2, i.e. (a+b)2.
It can be noted that Chandahsastra presents the first known description of a binary numeral system which is credited to an Indian mathematician, Pingala.
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