 | John Playfair - Mathematics - 1806 - 320 pages
...because DG=DB; therefore AD2+DB2=2AC2+ 2CD2. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c, QE D, PROP. XI. PROB. TO divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...double of the squares of AC, CD. Wherefore, wr a straight line, &c. QED PROP. XI. PROB. TO clivjde a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1810 - 554 pages
...AD, DB are double of the squares of AC, CD. \Vherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED PR6P. XI. PROB. TO divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...double of the squares of AC, CD. Wherefore, if a straight line, £c. QED "46. 1 Ho. 1 PROP. XI. PROB. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so...that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line; it... | |
 | Daniel Cresswell - Euclid's Elements - 1817 - 454 pages
...tangents to the two circles, drawn from any point of the line, shall be equal to one another. (LXXV.) To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the square of the one shall be equal to the rectangle contained by the other and a given straight line.... | |
 | John Playfair - Circle-squaring - 1819 - 350 pages
...DG=DB: Therefore, AD3 +DB3=2AC3+2CD3. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. Q, ED . . PROP. XI. PROB. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so...that the rectangle contained by the -whole, and one of the parts, may be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 442 pages
...squares may be equal to a given square, and their rectangle equal to a given rectangle. 9. To divide a straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of a given line, which is less than the line to be divided.... | |
 | Daniel Cresswell - Geometry - 1819 - 446 pages
...them without the circles, shall (E. 36. 3. and S. 80. 3.) be equal to one another. PROP. LXXXI. 106. PROBLEM. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the square of the one shall be equal to the rectangle contained by the other and a given straight line.... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 444 pages
...squares may be equal to a given square, and their rectangle equal to a given rectangle. 9. To divide a straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole aud one of the parts may be equal to the square of a given line, which is less than the line to be... | |
 | Daniel Cresswell - Geometry - 1819 - 486 pages
...manifest from this proposition, and from E. 1O. 4., that if the semi-diameter of a circle be divided into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and the lesser part may be equal to the square of the greater part, the greater segment shall be equal... | |
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To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square on the other part. 
