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Book VI Proposition 31 | |
Let AD be drawn perpendicular. Then since, in the right-angled triangle ABC, AD has been drawn from the right angle at A perpendicular to the base BC, the triangles ABD, ADC adjoining the prependicular are similar both to the whole ABC and to one another. [VI.8] |
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