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Book III   Proposition 33
Let AB be the given straight line, and the angle at C the given rectilineal angle;

thus it is required to
    describe on the given straight line AB a segment of a circle admitting an angle equal to the angle at C.

The angle at C is then acute, or right, or obtuse.
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