Multiple choice general knowledge history

Which Indian mathematician was the first to describe Binary Numbers?

  1. Pingala

  2. Aryabhatta

  3. Bhaskara

  4. Madhava of Sangamagrama
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Explanation

Pingala, in his Chandahsutra (c. 2nd-3rd century BCE), described binary numbers using short (laghu) and long (guru) syllables to represent 0 and 1, essentially creating the binary numeral system over 1500 years before Leibniz formalized it.

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