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
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