\textit{Myriad} concerns: Indian macro-time intervals (\textit{yugas}, \textit{sandhyās} and \textit{kalpas}) as systems of number

DOI10.1007/S10781-013-9196-1MaRDI QIDQ389341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors W. Randolph Kloetzli

Publication date 20 January 2014

Published in Journal of Indian Philosophy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-013-9196-1

zbMATH Keywords

acrophonic number systemApollonius of PergaHindu decimal number systemkalpasexagesimal number systemyuga

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of Indian mathematics (01A32)

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