Who among the following made very significant contributions in finding the exact value of pi pi ........

Ancient and Medieval History(HCS) Ancient South Indian History

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Who among the following made very significant contributions in finding the exact value of π (pi)?

Aryabhatta and Madhava

Bhaskaracharya

Budhayana

Gyandev and Aryabhatta

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Explanation:

According to Professor Ramasubramanian from IITB, one of the reasons why Indians would have wanted to know the value of pi, would have been for the construction of altars for havana, each household was supposed to have three of them—one square, one circular, and third semi-circular one.
The only condition was that the area of all the three altars be the same. This would have made it necessary for the society to be aware of the value of pi