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Proposition: 7.16: Natural Number Multiplication is Commutative

(Proposition 16 from Book 7 of Euclid's “Elements”)

If two numbers multiplying one another make some (numbers) then the (numbers) generated from them will be equal to one another.

• Let $A$ and $B$ be two numbers.
• And let $A$ make $C$ (by) multiplying $B$, and let $B$ make $D$ (by) multiplying $A$.
• I say that $C$ is equal to $D$.

Modern Formulation

see multiplication of natural numbers is commutative.

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

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