 | Thomas Perronet Thompson - Euclid's Elements - 1833 - 168 pages
...at the end of Prop. VII of the First Buo/t. PROPOSITION III. PROBLEM. — From the greater of Into 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. It is required to cut off from AB, a part equal to C. From either of the... | |
 | Euclides - 1834 - 518 pages
...has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC. Which was to be done. PROPOSITION III. PBOR. — From the greater of two given straight lines, to cut off" a part equal to the lets. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater ; it is required to cut... | |
 | Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...line AL has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC. Which was to be done. PROP. III. PROB. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut...less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater. It is required to cut off from AB, the greater, a part equal to C, the less.... | |
 | George Darley - Euclid's Elements - 1836 - 172 pages
...practical basis of admeasurement to which we have alluded. PROB. III. From the greater nftwogiven right lines to cut off a part equal to the less. Let AB, CD be two right Hues, of which AB is greater than CD . It is required to cut off from AB a part equal... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Euclid's Elements - 1837 - 290 pages
...point A a straight line AL has teen drawn equal to the given straight line BC. PROPOSITION HI. PROBLEM. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut...less; Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater. It is required to cut off from AB, the greater, a part equal to C, the less.... | |
 | Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1837 - 410 pages
...line AF has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC : which was to be done. PROP. III. PROB. FROM the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less.t Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, of which AB is the greater. It is required to... | |
 | Euclides - 1838 - 264 pages
...non-essential to the argument. PROP. III. PROS. From the greater of two gieen straight lines to cut of a part equal to the less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater. It is required to cut off from AB, the greater, a part equal to C, the less.... | |
 | Robert Simson - Geometry - 1838 - 434 pages
...BC. Which was to be done. PROP. III. PROB. FROM the greater of two given straight lines to cut oft' a part equal to the less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater. It is required to cut off from AB, the greater, a part equal to C, the less.... | |
 | Euclides - 1840 - 82 pages
...From a given point, to draw a straight line equal to a given finite straight line. PROP. III. PROB. From the greater of two given straight lines, to cut off a part equal to the less. PROP. IV. THEOREM. If two triangles have two sides of the one respectively equal to two sides of the... | |
 | Euclides - 1840 - 192 pages
...from the given point C, is equal to the given line AB (Ax. i). PROP. III. PROB. From the greater (AB) of two given straight lines, to cut off a part equal to the less (c). From either extremity of AB, as A, draw a straight line AD, equal to C (Prop. 2) ; and from the... | |
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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. 
