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Book VI Proposition 19 | |
Now, since as BC is to EF, so is EF to BG, and if three straight lines be proportional, the first has to the third a ratio duplicate of that which it has to the second, [V. Def.9] therefore BC has to BG a ratio duplicate of that which BC has to EF. |
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