 | John Playfair - Mathematics - 1806 - 320 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 442 pages
...their 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.... | |
 | John Playfair - Circle-squaring - 1819 - 350 pages
...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 - 444 pages
...their 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... | |
 | Euclid, Robert Simson - Geometry - 1821 - 514 pages
...equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line: it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and dne of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Upon AB describe (46. 1.) the square... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...squares of AC, CD. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED Proposition Xf. Problem. 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 'o the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it... | |
 | Daniel Cresswell - Euclid's Elements - 1825 - 616 pages
...produced, shall be to the square of the part produced, in a given ratio. VIII. PR. To divide a given finite straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle, contained by the whole line, and the difference of those two parts, shall be in a given ratio to the square of the less of... | |
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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. 
