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[Commentary:
The problem pursued in this and many other folios in Add MS 6784 is 'the cutting-off of a ratio',
as set out in Pappus, Mathematicae collectiones
(Pappus , Book 7. For a statement of the problem see Add MS 6784
f. . In this and the five following folios, Harriot gives diagrams for the many variations of the problem according to the relative positions of , , and . ]
De resectione
[Translation: On the cutting off of a ]
[Translation: On the cutting off of a ]
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