Euclid:Proposition/X/2

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Proposition

In the words of Euclid:

If, when the less of two unequal magnitudes is continually subtracted in turn from the greater, that which is left never measures the one before it, the magnitudes will be incommensurable.

(The Elements: Book $\text{X}$: Proposition $2$)


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