| Euclides - 1847 - 128 pages
...scientific chain is thereby broken ; and the system is of course incomplete. PROP. III. PROB. GEN. ENUN. — From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. PART. ENUN. — Let AB and c be the two gn. st. lines, of which AB fc is > c ; then it is required... | |
| John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1847 - 340 pages
...given point A, a straight line AL has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC. PROP. III. PROB. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater. It is required to cut off... | |
| Euclides - 1848 - 52 pages
...PROBLEM. From a given point, to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. PROP. III. PROBLEM. 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 equal to two sides of the other, each... | |
| Euclid, Thomas Tate - 1849 - 120 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 AK is the greater. It is required to cut off from AB, the greater, a part equal to C, the less.... | |
| Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...AL on B and C and remove one of them to A, and the other to L, and with a pen and ruler OF EUCLID. PEOP. III. PEOB. From the greater of two given straight...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.... | |
| London univ - 1852 - 358 pages
...truths of Geometry, as a portion of human science, rest ultimately on the evidence of the senses ? 2. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. 3. Show that if two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each... | |
| Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...AL has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC. Which wag to be done. PROPOSITION III. PBOB. 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.... | |
| Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...AL has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC. Which was to be done. PROP. III. — 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.... | |
| Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 178 pages
...been drawn equal to the given straight line b c. Which was to be done. PROPOSITION III. — 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 - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...finite straight line. Through a given point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line. From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. To bisect a given finite straight line. To divide a given finite stra,ght line into two parts, so that... | |
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