All the students nowadays use a calculator for working out even some of the easiest calculations.
You may wonder what the people did when there was no calculator.
Well, in India there was Vedic Mathematics. It originated from the Vedas of Hindu.
I am going to illustrate some examples of how Vedic Mathematics works. You will be astonished at how fast you can do some of the calculations.
Let us start with some easy stuff.
Finding the square of adjacent numbers:
(a) Say you know the square of 60 = 3600, then the square of 61 will be given as (60)2 + (60 + 61) = 3600 + 121 = 3721.
(b) I…
