Which limitation constrained medieval Islamic determination of sunrise time?

💡 Explanation

Algebraic solutions depended on spherical trigonometry: because iterative approximations introduced accumulating errors for sunrise equations, therefore exact sunrise precision was limited, rather than precise sundials or altitudes which are secondary order problems.

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