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Proposition: 3.13: Circles Touch at One Point at Most

(Proposition 13 from Book 3 of Euclid's “Elements”)

A circle does not touch a(nother) circle at more than one point, whether they touch internally or externally.

Modern Formulation

Two circles touch one another (internally or externally) at exactly one point.

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1. Fitzpatrick, Richard: Euclid's "Elements of Geometry"

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1. Prime.mover and others: "Pr∞fWiki", https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page, 2016