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Magic or Science?
Yantra - Tantra - Mantra
Yantra yN] Machine, Instrument, Tool
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a2 + b2 = c2
Transfer a Square into a Circle
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“If you wish to circle a square,
draw half its diagonal about
its centre towards the North-
East line; then describe a
circle together with the one- W
third of that which lies
outside the square” - BS I-I-
58
Square Root of 2
“Increase the measure by its third part, and
again by the fourth part less by the thirty-
fourth part of itself” - BS I-61-2
99 × 89