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Book I   Proposition 47
Similarly,
    if AE, BK be joined,
    the parallelogram CL can also be proved equal to the square HC;

therefore
    the whole square BDEC is equal to the two squares GB, HC. [C.N.2]

And the square BDEC is described on BC, and the squares GB, HC on BA, AC.
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