Re: "Vedic Mathematics" --- Myth and Reality

"Herman Jurjus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Arindam Banerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "Herman Jurjus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>  [snip]
> > > > I thought you said you did not want to continue the discussion.
> > >
> > > I had no choice continuing, since you put me words in my
> > > mouth that i hadn't written.
> >
> > Hmm, I am trying to put words in your mouth, eh?  This is something
> > new, and should have come up in your earlier post!
> >
> > What words?
> 
> These words:
> 
> ===
> ... thanks for
> clarifying that Tractenberg got his stuff from 16 books on Vedic
> maths...
> ===

Thanks.  That is just what you did.  You did not intend to make that
point, of course.  But you did say that Vedic arithmetic was so
verbose that it had to be translated into 16 books. I put and two and
two together, and probably got four.   If Tractenberg did not get his
stuff from Vedic arithmetic, which were published around the time he
did his work, then where did he get it from?  Did he do it
independently?  If he did, why was his work not accepted, given its
superior ease and simplicity?  Nothing but the prevailing racist and
religious bigotry could have prevented their acceptance, as they
hailed from an unacceptable heathen culture.  Exactly as any new idea
from modern heathen sources are not acceptable today in the Western
world; they are all inferior by definition.  No one earlier had said
that Vedic arithmetic was published in 16 books around that time
(1910, which was a time when new ideas from the East were coming to
the West), that is your one great contribution to this thread, for
which you are to be sincerely thanked.

Bye,
Arindam Banerjee.
> 
> Cheers,
> Herman Jurjus