Acharya Pingala

149 BC–

Ancient inventor of binary numbers, combinatorics, and matrix rules.

writer · mathematician · academic

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• Julius Caesar (99 BC–43 BC)
• Cicero (106 BC–42 BC)
• Sima Qian (144 BC–85 BC)
• Lucretius (93 BC–54 BC)
• Pompey (105 BC–47 BC)
• Bartholomew the Apostle (100 BC–)
• Spartacus (102 BC–70 BC)
• Polybius (199 BC–119 BC)

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