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Book II   Proposition 1
Let A, BC be two straight lines, and let BC be cut at random at the points D, E;

I say that
    the rectangle contained by A, BC
is equal to
    the rectangle contained by A, BD, that contained by A, DE, and that contained by A, EC.
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