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 If you prefer to produce the shares distinctly, take one-fourth of the capital, and subtract from it one share; there remains one-fourth of the capital less one share. Then subtract from this one dirhem: then subtract one-fifth of the remainder of one-fourth, which is one-fifth of one-fourth of the capital, less one-fifth of the share and less one-fifth of a dirhem; and subtract also the second dirhem. There remain four-fifths of the one-fourth less four-fifths of a share, and less one dirhem and four-fifths. The legacies paid out of one fourth amount to twelve two-hundred-and-fortieths of the capital and four-fifths of a share, and one dirhem and four-fifths. Take one-third, which is eighty, and subtract from it twelve, and four-fifths of a share, and one dirhem and four-fifths, and remove one-fourth of what remains, and one dirhem. You retain, then, of the one-third, only fifty-one, less three-fifths of a share, less two dirhems and seven-twentieths. Subtract herefrom one-eighth of the capital, which is thirty, and you retain twenty-one, less three-fifths of a share, and less two dirhems and seven-twentieths, and two-thirds of the capital, being equal to eight shares. Reduce this, by removing that which is to be subtracted, and adding it to the eight shares. Then you have one hundred and eighty-one parts of