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Book I   Proposition 16
But
    the angle ECD is greater than the angle ECF; [C.N. 5]
therefore
    the angle ACD is greater than the angle BAE.

Similarly also,
    if BC be bisected, the angle BCG, that is, the angle ACD [I.15], can be proved greater than the angle ABC as well.
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