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    Euclid (/ˈjuːklɪd/; Greek: Εὐκλείδης; fl. 300 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry"...
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  • Look up Euclid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Euclid generally refers to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (3rd century BC), who...
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    treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid c. 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions (theorems...
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    attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements. Euclid's approach consists in assuming a small...
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    In mathematics, the Euclidean algorithm, or Euclid's algorithm, is an efficient method for computing the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two integers...
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    Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine...
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    geometry, the parallel postulate, also called Euclid's fifth postulate because it is the fifth postulate in Euclid's Elements, is a distinctive axiom in Euclidean...
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    Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is an inner ring suburb of Cleveland. The population...
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  • In algebra and number theory, Euclid's lemma is a lemma that captures a fundamental property of prime numbers: Euclid's lemma — If a prime p divides the...
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  • Euclid is an imperative programming language for writing verifiable programs. It was designed in the mid-1970s by Butler Lampson and James G. Mitchell...
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