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Vedic Mathematics and the Calculations of Guru T¯rthaj¯
This article was written as a reaction to several publications in the Netherlands on methods of mental calculation, which have been presented as “Vedic mathematics.”The adjective”Vedic”suggests that these methods date back to the ancient Vedic period before 500 BCE.1 In this article I will first give two examples of genuine Vedic mathematics. After a brief [...]