False position method Moroccan origin. Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) devoted Chapter 13 of his book "Liber Abaci" (AD 1202) to explaining and demonstrating the uses of double false position, terming the method "regulis elchatayn" after the "al-khaṭāʾayn" method that he had learned from Arab sources. In 1494, Pacioli used the term "el cataym" in his book "Summa de arithmetica", probably taking the term from Fibonacci. Other European writers would follow Pacioli and sometimes provided a translation into Latin or the vernacular. For instance, Tartaglia translates the latinized version of Pacioli's term into the vernacular "false positions" in 1556. Pacioli's term nearly disappeared in
Always True to You in My Fashion Always True to You in My Fashion "Always True to You in My Fashion" is a 1948 show tune by Cole Porter, written for the musical "Kiss Me, Kate". It is based on "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae," a similarly ironic poem by the English Decadent poet Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), which has the refrain 'I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion,' and which was probably inspired by Dowson's lifelong friend Adelaide Foltinowicz, who never returned his devotion. The phrase "faithful in my fashion" entered the language before the song was written, and was the