While studying Pythagorean Triples, I came across an article about two consecutive odd (or even) numbers being the basis for the lengths of the sides of right triangles. The sum of these numbers would be one of the legs of…
I wrote to Dr. Po-Shen Loh that I previously used a method similar to his "new approach", and in response, he gave me an address where we can chat. Dr Po-Shen Loh sent me the following links: https://www.poshenloh.com/quadraticrelated, where he…
Dr. Po-Shen Loh, in his YouTube video, “A different way to solve quadratic equations”( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBalWWHYFQc) mentioned about studying the works of the ancient Babylonians, 15th- century Mathematicians and even works of Indians. He found out that the key points of…
Yesterday I posted about having written about what Prof Po-Shen Loh recently discovered as a “different method of solving quadratic equations”. I would like to stress that I used it only in factoring while Dr Loh used it to directly…
Last Dec 21, in our 21st MATH-Inic Special for Christmas, I discussed about what the very popular YouTuber Presh Talwalkar of MindYourDecision referred to as “a different method of solving quadratic equations that everybody is talking about”. This further strengthened…
We reserved this Sutra for the last of our 30 MATH-Inic Specials for Christmas because it depends largely on how much one has mastered the concepts presented in the previous specials. It also encourages adaptation and stimulates creativity because it…
Our 29th MATH-Inic Special for Christmas is about a “fun, fast and easy” way to convert a fraction with a prime number denominator into a recurring decimal. In our example here, instead of dividing by 19, we will use its…
Our 28th MATH-Inic Special for Christmas is the use of the Sutra ”By Addition and By Subtraction” in solving simultaneous linear equations. Using this Sutra, we can easily eliminate a variable. This is especially handy in cases where the coefficients…
The Vedic Mathematics Sutra or word formula “Transpose and Apply” has a much wider application than the “transposition” which we know in Algebra as a short cut of the “golden rule’ of Algebra: do unto one side of the equation,…
The Duplex is an important devise in squaring numbers and polynomials, extracting square roots and solving quadratic equations. Its principles can be extended into triplex and beyond. The duplex of a number with an even number of digits is twice…