Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00286)

Terrie,
My pleasure, and in regard to the Vedic Math I sometimes wondered if 
it were
possible to create a logic chip having the logarithms of the Vedic Math 
system 
incorporated and having the efficiency and direct resolution offered by 
it. It seems
to me that the West as a consequence of the Dark Ages got stuck in an 
inferior
burdensome painful drudgery which tends to exhaust the mind in all the 
unneeded
computational steps we were all taught in early schooling. I might add 
that I spent
nearly 3 days trying to understand the 1st Sloka for solving the radical 
Fraction
"1/19th", "By the Deficiency From Unity",lol. and also it blew my mind 
when it 
demonstrated one could begin the solution from either end, the beginning 
or the
very last numerical digit of the solution, the "Alpha or Omega" if you 
will. Never in
a western math class was I ever taught how to solve from the End back to 
the 
Beginning!

John