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Book VI   Proposition 8
I say next that
    the triangles ABD, ADC are also similar to one another.

For, since
    the right angle BDA is equal to the right angle ADC,
and moreover
    the angle BAD was proved equal to the angle at C,
Therefore
    the remaining angle at B is also equal to the remaining angle DAC; [I.32]
therefore
    the triangle ABD is equiangular with the triangle ADC.

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