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Aryabhata wrote the Aryabhatiya in 499 CE, a compact text that used a place value number system, gave an approximation of pi accurate to five significant figures, and set out rules for solving linear and quadratic equations. In astronomy he stated that Earth rotates on its axis, producing the daily motion of the stars, and explained lunar and solar eclipses as the shadows of the Earth and Moon rather than as omens, a genuinely physical account centuries ahead of much of the world.
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Aryabhata (Sanskrit: आर्यभट, IAST: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I (476–550 CE) was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers and early physicist from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.
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