 | Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...straight has been drawn equal to the given straight line PROPOSITION m. PROBLEM. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. Given, AB and C two straight lines, whereof AB is the greater. It it required to cut off from AB, the... | |
 | University of Oxford - Education, Higher - 1863 - 316 pages
...diameter of a circle, an obtuse-angled triangle, an oblong, a diagonal. 2. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. 3. On the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles having their sides which... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 448 pages
...the given straight line BC, Which was to be done. PROPOSITION III. PROBLEM. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. Let AB and Cbe the two given straight lines, of which AB is the greater. It is required to cut oS&omAB the greater,... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 262 pages
...straight lines to cut off apart equal to the less. Let AB and Cbe the two given straight lines, of which AB is the greater. It is required to cut off from AB the greater, a part equal to C, the less. From the point A draw the straight line AD equal to C; (l.... | |
 | Euclides - 1865 - 80 pages
...(Ax. 1) to one another, therefore AE is equal to BC. PROPOSITION II. PROB. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the...less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, of which AB is the greater, it is required to cut off a part from AB equal to C the less. From A as... | |
 | Euclides - 1865 - 402 pages
...given point to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. Prop. 3. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. Prop. 4. If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each,... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 426 pages
...straight line BC. QEP PROPOSITION 3. PROBLEM. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut qff a part equal to the less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, of which AB is the greater : it is required to cut off from AB, the greater, a part equal to C the... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 424 pages
...straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, of which AB is the greater : it is required to cut off from AB, the greater, a part equal to C the less. From the point A draw the straight line AD equal to C; [I.... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...the given straight line BC. Which was to be done. PROPOSITION III. PROBLEM. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the...less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, of* which AB is the greater. It is required to cut off from AB the greater, a part equal to C.the less.... | |
 | Schools inquiry commission - Education - 1868 - 742 pages
...angled triangle? 1" 2. Write out the following propositions of Euclid : — (1.) From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less, BI, Prop. 3. (2.) To find the centre of a given circle, B. III., Prop. 1. 3. In BI, Prop. 9. To bisect... | |
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From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater. 
