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Book VI   Proposition 16
Therefore,
    if four straight lines be proportional,
    the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the rectangle contained by the means;
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    if the rectangle contained by the extremes be equal to the rectangle contained by the means,
    the four straight lines will be proportional,

Being what it was required to prove.
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