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Book VI   Proposition 27
Then, since
    CF is equal to FE, [I.43]
and
    FB is common,
therefore
    the whole CH is equal to the whole KE.

But
    CH is equal to CG, since AC is also equal to EK. [I.36]

Therefore
    CG is also equal to EK.
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