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Book II   Proposition 8
But
    BD is equal to BC.

Therefore
    four times the rectangle contained by AB, BC
together with
    the square on AC
is equal to
    the square on AD, that is to the square described on AB and BC as on one straight line.

Being what it was required to prove.
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