Kitap 10
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For, if it is square, it is either equal to the square on BE, or less than the square on BE, but cannot any more be greater, lest the unit be divided.
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First, if possible, let the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE be equal to the square on BE, and let GA be double of the unit DE.
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Since then the whole AC is double of the whole CD, and in them AG is double of DE, therefore the remainder GC is also double of the remainder EC; therefore GC is bisected by E.
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Therefore the product of GB, BC together with the square on CE is equal to the square on BE. [II. 6]
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But the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE is also, by hypothesis, equal to the square on BE; therefore the product of GB, BC together with the square on CE is equal to the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE.
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And, if the common square on CE be subtracted, it follows that AB is equal to GB: which is absurd.
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Therefore the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE is not equal to the square on BE.
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I say next that neither is it less than the square on BE.
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For, if possible, let it be equal to the square on BF, and let HA be double of DF.
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Now it will again follow that HC is double of CF; so that CH has also been bisected at F, and for this reason the product of HB, BC together with the square on FC is equal to the square on BF. [II. 6]
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But, by hypothesis, the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE is also equal to the square on BF.
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Thus the product of HB, BC together with the square on CF will also be equal to the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE: which is absurd.
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Therefore the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE is not less than the square on BE.
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And it was proved that neither is it equal to the square on BE.
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Therefore the product of AB, BC together with the square on CE is not square. Q. E. D.
PROPOSITION 29.
