*Correspondence: [email protected] 2Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Given a non-self mapping from A to B, where A and B are subsets of a metric space, in order to compute an optimal approximate solution of the equation Sx = x, a best proximit...