False position method lines on a conic section. A more typical example is this "joint purchase" problem: Now an item is purchased jointly; everyone contributes 8 [coins], the excess is 3; everyone contributes 7, the deficit is 4. Tell: The number of people, the item price, what is each? Answer: 7 people, item price 53. Between the 9th and 10th centuries, the Egyptian mathematician Abu Kamil wrote a now-lost treatise on the use of double false position, known as the "Book of the Two Errors" ("Kitāb al-khaṭāʾayn"). The oldest surviving writing on double false position from the Middle East is that of Qusta
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