Katha.AI on Instagram: "2,000+ years ago, you’re counting poetry… and end up shaping modern mathematics. Long before computers, Europe, or modern number theory, Pingala, an ancient Indian scholar (c. 3rd–2nd century BCE), was analysing Sanskrit poetic metres in his work Chhandaḥśāstra. By studying patterns of long (guru) and short (laghu) syllables, he created a system of combinations that mirrors what we today call the binary system. While counting possible syllable arrangements, Pingala descri