Proposition: 6.09: Construction of Part of Line
(Proposition 9 from Book 6 of Euclid's “Elements”)
To cut off a prescribed part from a given straight line.
- Let $AB$ be the given straight line.
- So it is required to cut off a prescribed part from $AB$.
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Modern Formulation
It is possible to scale a yardstick (with an equidistant scale) of a given length $|AC|$ to the new length $|AB|.$
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