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Book III   Proposition 37
For let a point D be taken outside the circle ABC; from D let two straight lines DCA, DB fall on the circle ACB; let DCA cut the circle and DB fall on it; and let the rectangle AD, DC be equal to the square on DB.

I say that DB touches the circle ABC.
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