Parallel straight lines are straight lines which, being in the same plane and being produced indefinitely in both directions, do not meet one another in either direction.
— Euclid Ancient

Father of geometry

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Definition in 'Elements'

Date / Period

300 BC

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https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/defI23.html

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