Data

work by Euclid

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  • Euclid
    In Euclid: Other writings

    …the first group is the Data (from the first Greek word in the book, dedomena [“given”]), a disparate collection of 94 advanced geometric propositions that all take the following form: given some item or property, then other items or properties are also “given”—that is, they can be determined. Some of…

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