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Book I   Proposition 39
Therefore
    the triangle EBC is equal to the triangle ABC,
for
    it is on the same base BC with it and in the same parallels. [I.37]

But
    DBC is equal to ABC; (hypothesis)
therefore
    EBC is also equal to DBC, [C.N.1]
the less to the greater: which is impossible.
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