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Book III   Proposition 3
Then, since AF is equal to FB, and FE is common,
two sides are equal to two sides; and
    the base EA is equal to the base EB;
therefore
    the angle AFE is equal to the angle BFE. [I.8]

But, when a straight line set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the equal angles is right; [I.Def.10]
therefore
    each of the angles AFE, BFE is right.
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