Re: Geometric construction of the product of two numbers

On Feb 22, 7:14 pm, "Mariano Suárez-Alvarez"
<mariano.suarezalva...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can anyone point me to a web reference giving the
construction of a segment of length ab from segments of
lengths a and b?

Thanks to all. That's the construction I had in mind.

-- m
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