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Book II   Proposition 7
But
    the gnomon KLM and the squares BG, GD
are
    the whole ADEB and CF,
which are the squares described on AB, BC;

therefore
    the squares on AB, BC
are equal to
    twice the rectangle contained by AB, BC
together with
    the square on AC.

Being what it was required to prove.
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