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Book III   Proposition 14
And, since AE is equal to EC,
    the square on AE is also equal to the square on EC.

But
    the squares on AF, FE are equal to the square on AE, for the angle at F is right;
and
    the squares on EG, GC are equal to the square on EC, for the angle at G is right; [I.47]

therefore
    the squares on AF, FE are equal to the squares on CG, GE.
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