Multiple choice general knowledge history

The value of "pi" was first calculated by???

  1. Charak

  2. Ramanujan

  3. Bhaskaracharya

  4. Budhayana
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Explanation

Baudhayana (circa 800 BCE), an ancient Indian mathematician, first calculated the value of pi in his Sulba Sutras. He gave the value of pi as approximately 3.088, while later Indian mathematicians like Aryabhata refined it to 3.1416.

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