third bequest, fourteen remain, which is the share. So pay it to the legatee of the share, then pay to the second half of what remains of the third, which is seven, and to the third a fourth of the estate, twenty-one. Forty-two remain, fourteen for each son. By the second method, you add half a share to the number of the sons, and multiply three and a half by twenty-four, it becomes eighty-four. By the third method, you act in this as you acted in the one before it, so when it reaches twenty-one, you multiply it by four because of the fourth, it becomes eighty-four. By the method of the share, you assume the estate to be six shares and three shares, pay a share to the owner of the share, a share to the other, and a share and a half plus three-fourths of a share to the owner of the fourth; a share and a fourth plus three and a half shares remain from the estate for the heirs, which equals three shares; so drop a share and a fourth by their equivalents, three and a half shares remain, which equal a share and three-fourths, so the share is then two shares. Expand the three shares, they become six, so the estate becomes twelve, and it is valid from it; the owner of the share gets two shares, the other gets half the remainder of the third, which is one share, and the owner of the fourth gets three, six remain, two shares for each son. This is more concise and better. By algebra, you take an estate and pay from it a share, an estate minus a share remains, you pay half the remainder of its third, which is a sixth minus half a share, five-sixths of the estate minus half a share remain; you pay from it a fourth of the estate, a third of the estate and its fourth minus half a share remain, which equals three shares; compensate, equate, invert, and convert, the share becomes seven, and the estate forty-two. Then you multiply it by two, so the fraction is removed, it returns to eighty-four.

Section: If the third bequest is of a fourth of what remains of the estate after the first two bequests, then execute it by the method of the share, as we have mentioned. Three shares and three-fourths of a share remain with you, which equal a share and a half. Expand them into fourths, the shares become fifteen.