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Proposition: Prop. 8.17: Number does not divide Number iff Cube does not divide Cube

(Proposition 17 from Book 8 of Euclid's “Elements”)

If a cube number does not measure a(nother) cube number then the side (of the former) will not measure the side (of the latter) either. And if the side (of a cube number) does not measure the side (of another cube number) then the (former) cube (number) will not measure the (latter) cube (number) either.

• For let the cube number $A$ not measure the cube number $B$.
• And let $C$ be the side of $A$, and $D$ (the side) of $B$.
• I say that $C$ will not measure $D$.
• And so let $C$ not measure $D$.
• I say that $A$ will not measure $B$ either.

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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