Let A and B be incommensurable magnitudes.
I say that A does not have to B the ratio which a number has to a number.
If A does have to B the ratio which a number has to a number, then A is commensurable with B.
But it is not, therefore A does not have to B the ratio which a number has to a number.
Therefore, incommensurable magnitudes do not have to one another the ratio which a number has to a number.
This proposition is the contrapositive of the last one. It is used in X.11.
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