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“Pingala's Chandahsutra (~200 BCE) gives a four-aphorism recursive algorithm for counting metrical arrangements of n syllables. The rules ("halve; subtract one when odd; multiply by two; square when halved") implement exponentiation-by-squaring — the same recurrence modern computers use to compute 2ⁿ in O(log n) steps. Halayudha's 10th-century commentary makes the recursion explicit. The algorithm predates Leibniz's binary arithmetic (1703) by ~1,900 years. ”