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240chapter fivefrom the first case where individual male shares are always biggerthan the individual female shares. But the first case is ratherexceptional since it applies only to those rare situations wherethe female heirs outnumber [twice] the male heirs.3. The third limit:‘if only one, her share is a half’: This limit applies to all caseswhere the number of male inheritors exactly equals the numberof female inheritors (if one male + one female → then half toeach; if two males + two females → then a quarter to each, etc.).This limit is expressed by the formula:F___ = 1 (F = number of female heirs; M = number of male heirs)MOnce more, the male shares are not twice the amount of thefemale shares as in case 1/limit 1. The mistake of traditionaljurisprudence was to apply case 1/limit 1 to all possible casesof inheritance, thereby conflating three different limits into oneand spuriously overruling the two other limits by the first one.Our model proposes keeping the three limits apart and applyingthem separately to the case in which they can provide the bestand fairest solution.The text reminds us that ‘those are the limits set by God"! We willsee that the remaining verses (11–13) provide the upper and lowerboundaries of these limits. The following sections will demonstrate,with the help of analytical geometry and mathematical theories, thatthe exact amount of portions can be precisely calculated and allocatedand that we do not have to put up with the quantitative orqualitative ambiguity of the traditional models of inheritance law.The General Law of InheritanceMoving from digital quantities to nondigital quantities in calculatinginheritance shares, six situations can be formulated: