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inside

some

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defined environ

where the de fine it ion

is off center by an electron

or three

The relevant passage in the Theaetetus at 147d-148b 

has Theaetetus say:

"Theodorus here was drawing some figures for us in illustration of roots, showing that squares containing three square feet and five square feet are not commensurable in length with the unit of the foot, and so, selecting each one in its turn up to the square containing seventeen square feet and at that he stopped".