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Book II   Proposition 12
    Let ABC be an obtuse-angled triangle having the angle BAC obtuse, and
    let BD be drawn from the point B perpendicular to CA produced;

I say that the square on BC is greater than the squares on BA, AC by twice the rectangle contained by CA, AD.
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