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Book VI   Proposition 17
Therefore,
    if three straight lines be proportional,
    the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the square on the mean;
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    if the rectangle contained by the extremes be equal to the square on the mean,
    the three straight lines will be proportional,

Being what it was required to prove.
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