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Book I   Proposition 11
    Let a point D be taken at random on AC;

    let CE be made equal to CD; [I.3]

on DE
    let the equilateral triangle DEF be constructed, [I.1]
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    let FC be joined.

I say that the straignt line FC has been drawn at right angles to the given straight line AB from C the given point on it.
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