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Book VI   Proposition 30
On AB
    let the square BC be described;
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    let there be applied to AC the parallelogram CD equal to BC and exceeding by the fiqure AD similar to BC. [VI.29]

Now
    BC is a square;
therefore
    AD is also a square.
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