Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun???

  1. Aryabhatt

  2. Ramanujan

  3. Bhaskaracharya

  4. Budhayana

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Bhaskaracharya (Bhaskara II), the 12th-century Indian mathematician, calculated the time taken by Earth to orbit the Sun as 365.258756484 days in his work Siddhanta Shiromani. This is remarkably close to the modern value of 365.256 days.