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Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years

02-09-2023 • arclein

While researching his PhD, published today, Dr Rajpopat decoded a 2,500-year-old algorithm which makes it possible, for the first time, to accurately use P??ini's 'language machine'. P??ini's system ?" 4,000 rules detailed in his greatest work, the A???dhy?y?, which is thought to have been written around 500BC ?" is meant to work like a machine. Feed in the base and suffix of a word and it should turn them into grammatically correct words and sentences through a step-by-step process. Until now, however, there has been a big problem. Often, two or more of P??ini's rules are simultaneously applicable at the same step leaving scholars to agonise over which one to choose.

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Reported By robert klein

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