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Book II   Proposition 13
    Let ABC be an acute-angled triangle having the angle at B acute, and
    let AD be drawn from the point A perpendicular to BC;

I say that the square on AC is less than the squares on AB, BC by twice the rectangle contained by CB, BD.
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