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Book I   Proposition 48
But
    the square on DC is equal to the squares on DA, AC, for the angle DAC is right; [I.47]
and
    the square on BC is equal to the squares on BA, AC, for this is the hypothesis;

therefore
    the square on DC is equal to the square on BC,
so that
    ths side DC is also equal to the side BC.
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