Euclid's Elements

Book 1: The 48 Propositions

43) In any parallelogram the complements of the parallelogram about the diameter are equal to one another.

Let ABCD be a parallelogram, and AC its diameter; and about AC let EH, FG be parallelograms, and BK, KD the so-called complements. Complement BK is equal to the complement KD.

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