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Book II of Euclid's Elements and a pre-Eudoxan theory of ratio

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Communicated by B.L. van der Waerden

To Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, for his seventy-fifth birthday, November 1980.

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Fowler, D.H. Book II of Euclid's Elements and a pre-Eudoxan theory of ratio. Arch. Rational Mech. 22, 5–36 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327868

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