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Book VI   Proposition 23
Since, then, it was proved that,
    as K is to L, so is the parallelogram AC to the parallelogram CH,
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    as L is to M, so is the parallelogram CH to the parallelogram CF,
therfore, ex aequali,
    as K is to M, so is AC to to the parallelogram CF.

But
    K has to M the ratio compounded of the ratios of the sides;
therefore
    AC also has to CF the ratio compounded of the ratios of the sides.
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