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area a medial base binomial straight line bisected breadth circle ABCD commensurable in length commensurable in square cone cube cut in extreme cylinder decagon definition diameter dodecahedron equilateral Eucl Euclid extreme and mean find first apotome five greater segment height Hence icosahedron inscribed irrational straight line Lemma let the square magnitudes mean ratio measure medial area medial straight line medial whole parallelepipedal solids parallelogram pentagon perpendicular plane of reference polygon prism PROPOSITION proved pyramid ratio triplicate rational and incommensurable rational area rational straight line rectangle AC rectangle contained right angles second apotome side similar Similarly solid angle solid CD sphere square number square on AB squares on AC straight lines commensurable surable triangle twice the rectangle vertex whence
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| Title | The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Volume 3 The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Sir Thomas Little Heath |
| Authors | Euclid, Johan Ludvig Heiberg |
| Editor | Sir Thomas Little Heath |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1908 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | Jun 25, 2013 |
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