Sages & Scientists · Vedanga
Pingala
पिङ्गल
Piṅgala
Pingala's treatise on metre encodes the first known systematic use of binary numbers, the rules of combinatorics, and recursive series — over two millennia before they re-entered European mathematics.
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- Era
- c. 5th–2nd century BCE
- field
- Prosody, mathematics, binary thinking
- sourcing
- textually attested
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