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Book VI   Proposition 17
But,
    if the rectangle contained by the expremes be equal to that contained by the means,
    the four straight lines are proportional. [VI.16]

Therefore,
    as A is to B,
    so is D to C.
But
    B is equal to D;
therefore
    as A is to B
    so is B to C.
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