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Proposition: Transitivity of Parallel Lines

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(Proposition 30 from Book 1 of “Euklid’s Elements”)

Straight lines parallel to the same straight line are also parallel to one another, i.e. if \(AB\parallel EF\) and \(EF\parallel CB\) then \(AB\parallel CB\) (see Fig.):

References

[628] Casey, John: “The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid”, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21076, 2007
[626] Callahan, Daniel: “Euclid’s ‘Elements’ Redux”, http://starrhorse.com/euclid/, 2014


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