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	== Etymology ==		== Etymology ==
	This comma was named by Cole in 2024 after the ''Sulba Sutra'', a classical Indian mathematical text from the third or fourth century BC<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell_number#cite_ref-3</ref> that first mentioned this accurate approximation to the square root of two.		This comma was named by [[User:2^67-1\|Cole]] in 2024 after the ''Sulba Sutra'', a classical Indian mathematical text from the third or fourth century BC<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell_number#cite_ref-3</ref> that first mentioned this accurate approximation to the square root of two.