{"id":25434,"date":"2024-10-30T00:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=25434"},"modified":"2024-10-30T02:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:47:28","slug":"the-ingenious-method-of-expressing-every-possible-number-using-a-set-of-ten-symbols-each-symbol-having-a-place-value-and-an-absolute-value-emerged-in-india-the-idea-seems-so-simple-nowada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=25434","title":{"rendered":"The ingenious method of expressing every possible number\u00a0using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute\u00a0value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its\u00a0significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated. Its\u00a0simplicity lies in the way it facilitated calculation and placed arithmetic\u00a0foremost amongst useful inventions. The importance of this invention is more\u00a0readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the two greatest\u00a0men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. &#8211; Laplace about Indian Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8wLTM2oXmk?si=Mc0iqAEe92awnlRn\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}