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Introduction to Euclid’s Definition of Ratio and of Equal Ratios

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

We start, as Euclid did, with the vague notion that, if A and B are two magnitudes of the same kind, the ratio of A to B is some relation between them in respect of magnitude, i.e. in respect of relative magnitude, independent of the actual magnitude of each.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1928

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