Posts tagged 'first-apotome-of-a-medial-straight-line'

G.455 medial segment there

If from a medial segment there be subtracted a medial segment which is commensurable with the whole in square only, and which contains with the whole a rational rectangle, the remainder is irrational. And let it be called a first apotome of a medial segment.

G.495 medial area rational

If from a medial area a rational area be subtracted, there arise two other irrational segments, either a first apotome of a medial segment or a segment which produces with a rational area a medial whole.