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 multiply two-thirds of one-fifth of the square by seven and a half, in order that the square may be completed. Multiply that which you have already, namely, one-seventh of its root, by the same. The result will be, that the square is equal to one root and half a seventh of the root; and the root of the square is one and a half seventh; and the square is one and twenty-nine one hundred and ninety-sixths of a dirhem. Two-thirds of the fifth of this are thirty parts of the hundred and ninety-six parts. One-seventh of its root is likewise thirty parts of a hundred and ninety-six.

If the instance be: “Three-fourths of the fifth of a square are equal to four-fifths of its root,” then the computation is this: You add one-fifth to the four-fifths, in order to complete the root. This is then equal to three and three-fourths of twenty parts, that is, to fifteen eightieths of the square. Divide now eighty by fifteen; the quotient is five and one-third. This is the root of the square, and the square is twenty-eight and four-ninths.

If some one say: “What is the amount of a square-root, which, when multiplied by four times itself,