 | Euclid - Euclid's Elements - 1789 - 296 pages
...Let AB be the given right line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, fo that the reŁtangle of the whole line and one of the parts fhall be equal to the fquare of the other part. Upon AB defcribe the fquare AC (II. i.), and bifeft the fide of it AD in... | |
 | John McGregor (teacher of mathematics.) - Mathematics - 1792 - 532 pages
...PROBLEM VI. Fig. 2. To divide any given line, AB, into two fuch parts that the reftangle, contained by the whole line and one of the parts, fhall be equal to the fquare of the other part. АВ=д CB=a— * Anf. a+ 2_ 4 PROBLEM VII. Given the difference between... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Euclid's Elements - 1803 - 470 pages
...PROBLEM. • • - y To divide a given right line into two parts, fo that the re&angle contained by the whole line and one of the parts, fhall be equal to the fquare of the other part. Let AB be the given right line ; it is required to divide it into two parts,... | |
 | John Playfair - Mathematics - 1806 - 320 pages
...straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by... | |
 | John Playfair - 1819 - 354 pages
...straight line into too parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, niay be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contaiaed by... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide .it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained... | |
 | Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1836 - 148 pages
...straight line into two partx, so that the rectangle con tained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line : it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by... | |
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To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that... 
