Construct the common perpendicular to the two given h-lines using the following steps:

• Choose two points, say A and A', on one line and drop perpendiculars, say a and a', from them to the other line.
• Drop perpendicular from A to a' and from A' to a; let P be the point of their intersection.
• Drop perpendicular from P to one of the given lines.

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