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Proposition: Prop. 10.071: Sum of Rational Area and Medial Area gives rise to four Irrational Straight Lines

(Proposition 71 from Book 10 of Euclid's “Elements”)

When a rational and a medial (area) are added together, four irrational (straight lines) arise (as the square root of the total area) - either a binomial, or a first bimedial, or a major, or the square root of a rational plus a medial (area) .

• Let $AB$ be a rational (area), and $CD$ a medial (area) .
• I say that the square root of area $AD$ is either binomial, or first bimedial, or major, or the square root of a rational plus a medial (area) .

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

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