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ABC, DEF be similar triangles having the angle at B equal to the angle at E,
and such that
as AB is to BC,
so is DE to EF,
so that
BC corresponds to EF. [V. Def.11]
I say that
the triangle ABC has to the triangle DEF
a ratio
duplicate of that which BC has to EF.
