Levensita
Levensita
fl. 718
Indian astronomer and mathematician who translated Hindu mathematical works into Chinese. These included texts describing angle measurement, as well as a table of sines for angles from 0° to 90°. He also made an unsuccessful attempt to introduce Hindu decimal numbers into general use in China.
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