Excerpt from A Key to the Exercises and Examples Contained in a Text-Book of Euclid's Elements: Books I-Vi, and XI
The Key is arranged for use with the Edition of our Euclid bearing the date 1892. For the convenience of those who use an earlier Edition, we here give a list of the few alterations which on careful revision we have thought well to make in the Examples of the book.
On Page 148 (euclid), Ex. 40, read, Produce a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced and the part produced, may be equal to the square on whether given line.
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