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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2024
Several problems that were composed and/or solved by the tenth century Islamic mathematician Abu Sahl al-Kuhi reached us via the writings of Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi, another tenth century Islamic mathematician who, according to [1], was presumably a student of al-Kuhi’s. Twelve of these (sets of) problems and theorems are discussed in [1] and are referred to as The Fragments. The theorem of al-Kuhi alluded to in the title is Fragment #9, which is presented below, together with Fragment #5 and their proofs, in Section 2. Section 3 is devoted to the generalisation referred to in the title. Section 4 describes a relation to angle trisection and Sections 5 and 7 a relation too a configuration of Serenus. Section 6 contains a speculation on what motivated Fragment #9.