| Euclides - Euclid's Elements - 1881 - 236 pages
...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,...straight line AD equal to C. And from the centre A, at the distance AD, describe (Post. 3) the circle DBF. Then the part AE shall he equal to C. Because... | |
| Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1883 - 428 pages
...straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less AB is the greater : it is required to cut off from AS, the greater, a part equal to C the less. From the point A draw the straight line AD equal to 0; [I. 2. and from the centre A, at the distance ^Z>, describe the circle... | |
| Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 272 pages
...greater. L\ / \ It is required to cut off from AB a part \J /~ equal to C, the less. ^^_^T From A draw AD equal to C ; and from the centre A, and at the distance AD, describe the circle DEF; and because A is the centre of DEP, AE shall be equal to AD ; but C is likewise equal... | |
| Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 pages
...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. IA IE B \ From the point A draw the straight line AD equal to C. [I. 2. From the centre A, at the distance... | |
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