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Early use of something like zero by the Indian scholar Pingala (circa 5th-2nd century B.C.E.), implied at first glance by his use of binary numbers ...

* Pingala (c. 500 B.C.E.), author of the Chandas shastra * Syntipas (c. 100 B.C.E.), author of The Story of the Seven Wise Masters. ...

* c. 400 B.C.E.: Pingala develops the binary number system for Sanskrit prosody, with a clear mapping to the base-10 decimal system. ...

February 18, 2023.) and his commentators Pingala (c. 200 BCE), Katyayana, and Patanjali (second century B.C.E.Tolkāppiyam, the earliest Tamil ...

brown), parita (palita, grey), and pinkara (pingala, red). Their chief festival was the celebration of the solstice (vishuva) which was common in most ...