Newsletter of the World Academy of Vedic Mathematics (part of the International Research and Resource Foundation for Indian heritage)
ISSUE No. 60
A warm welcome to our new subscribers.
Vedic Mathematics is becoming increasingly popular as more and more people are
introduced to the beautifully unified and easy Vedic methods. The purpose of
this Newsletter is to provide information about developments in education and
research and books, articles, courses, talks etc., and also to bring together
those working with Vedic Mathematics. If you are working with Vedic Mathematics
- teaching it or doing research - please contact us and let us include you and
some description of your work in the Newsletter. Perhaps you would like to submit
an article for inclusion in a later issue or tell us about a course or talk
you will be giving or have given.
If you are learning Vedic Maths, let us know how you are getting on and what
you think of this system.
This issue's article is from the Times Of India Pune; Date: Apr 21, 2008; Section:
Times City; Page: 4. Written by Laxmi Birajdar.
VEDIC BOOSTERS FOR SPEEDY PROGRAMMING
Undergraduate students from the COEP have used Vedic mathematics to decrease
the time taken to execute programming commands on a computer
Applying the simple calculation tricks of Vedic mathematics to computer coding
is a novel attempt at smart number crunching. That's what Ashish Joglekar, Ajinkya
Kale and Shaunak Vaidya - undergraduate students from College of Engineering,
Pune (COEP) - did to come up with an algorithm for implementation of effective
coding commands on the computer.
Using the Paravartya Sutra from Vedic mathematics, the trio put across these calculations in their research paper, 'A Novel Binary Division Algorithm Based on Vedic Mathematics and Applications to Polynomial Division'.
"We've used Vedic mathematics to decrease the time taken to execute programming commands on a computer," explains Ashish.
This particular paper has been taken from their very first research effort at calculations through Vedic maths - "An Efficient Binary Multiplication Algorithm Based on Vedic Mathematics," - a research paper they presented this March at NCTCT '08 - a conference on the latest trends in computing technology in Chennai. Apparently, Ajinkya, Shaunak and Ashish were the only undergraduate engineering students to have participated in this event, which comprised M Techs.
Vedic maths facilitates quick and easy mental calculations. But what mattered to these students was adapting the mathematical derivations to the computer language of binary system -comprising only two numbers, 0 and 1. "We've used Vedic maths to devise a dividend and a divisor, using constants and variables, to arrive upon quotients and remainders that further elucidate the algorithm for quicker computing," says Ajinkya.
It is not surprising that the mathematical geniuses will show their research during a presentation at 'The 2008 International Conference on Applied Computing', which is a part of Worldcomp' 08 - the World Congress on Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing - that will be held in Las Vegas, USA, from July 14 to 17 this year.
Judged on a scale of one to 10 at Worldcomp's screening, the paper has scored exceptionally well on originality, technical quality, readability and presentation. It has even been recommended as a publishable paper in journals.
Their 20-min presentation has also been included in the prestigious Regular Research Paper (RPR) category, usually meant for papers by PhDs. They were guided by their faculty, Professor A.A. Sawant, head of department of computer science at COEP and Vinakay Joshi in fine-tuning this research paper.
The students' exceptional command over mathematics should not come as a surprise. Having educated themselves in Vedic mathematics since childhood, these students value its benefits, especially for calculations in modern gadgetry. "Vedic mathematics calculations for certain programming commands are less complex and don't require tables of numbers used," says Ajinkya.
In future, they see themselves making a career in engineering research. "We want to come up with algorithms based on Vedic mathematics for dedicated chips," Ashish says.
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ASSISTANCE REQUIRED
Congratulations to the young men who have done the research described in the article above. The title of the paper is " A Novel Binary Division Algorithm Based on Vedic Mathematics and Applications to Polynomial Division " - Ajinkya Kale, Ashish Joglekar, Shaunak Vaidya.
They write "We are investigating into 2 more areas and have found good results but to do further research and at the same time attend the conference at Las Vegas is giving us some financial problems." The conference is in Las Vegas in July. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws
If you can help them to continue their work and to attend their Conference please contact us at mailto:news@vedicmaths.org
VM ACADEMY ON-LINE COURSE
The Vedic Mathematics Academy was formed in 1999 to spread knowledge of this unique system of mathematics. Now the first course is being offered. It will be an introductory course of about 18 hours given as two 2-hour lessons per week. There will be a test at the end and a certificate will be issued to those successfully completing the course. This will be given in a virtual classroom so that anyone anywhere can take the course who has a computer and a broadband connection.
If you are interested and would like to know more please email us at mailto:news@vedicmaths.org for more details and a course syllabus. The course will be given by Kenneth Williams who has many years experience in developing the Vedic system and giving VM courses. An Advanced course will be available at a later date for those who complete the Introductory course.
VEDIC MATHS LESSONS IN OMAN
R.Sujaritha is now giving Vedic mathematics lessons in Oman and this is proving
very popular. So if you live there take advantage and contact her at sujamirtha24may@yahoo.co.in
Also see her Blog: http://vedic-maths.blogspot.com/.
A SPECIAL TYPE OF MULTIPLICATION from R. Sujaritha
I am sending you the tables of consecutive 2 digit number multiplied by 9 ,You
can get the answer by writing the1st digit of the multiplicand as it is. The
Second digit will be 'Zero". The third digit will be the Complement of
the second digit of the Multiplicand from 10.
1 2 X 9 = 1 0 8
2 3 X 9 = 2 0 7
3 4 X 9 = 3 0 6
4 5 X 9 = 4 0 5
5 6 X 9 = 5 0 4
6 7 X 9 = 6 0 3
7 8 X 9 = 7 0 2
8 9 X 9 = 8 0 1.
VEDIC MATHEMATICS SUMMER WORKSHOPS, NEW DELHI
From Age 11 - 16 years
Dates : June 23rd - 27th 2008
Time : From 11.30 am to 1.30 pm
Venue : India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Vedic Mathematics expert from Kolkata, Debmalya Banerjee, faculty,
The World Academy of Vedic Mathematics
For registration & further information please contact Renu Oberoi
Tel # 41220000 Extn : 3080
Collaboration : Motilal Banarsidass
SQUARING NUMBERS ENDING IN 5 - EXTENDED
Here Sumit Sharma shows the well-known Vedic method for squaring numbers ending in 5 and then develops it further.
I am sending a very interesting method of square of the no. which has 5 as
the last digit.
If we want to square any number having 5 as last digit, for ex. 35, we write
25 at the last part of the answer & multiply 3 with increasing i.e. 4 to
get 12 as the second part. The solution is 1225.
This is so common method but effective & simple but only for below numbers
125 or 135. After that it becomes little difficult.
So in my method, I use that method as supported method or we can say that my
method is an application of that method.
Ex.:-
1852 =(18+9)*1,852 =34225
2652= (26+7)*2,652= 70225
Thus (abc)2 = (ab+(b+1))*a, (bc)2,where c is always 5.
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3rd June 2008