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Of course 297/210 isn't (and can't be) exactly sqrt(2). But it's very close (4 s.f.), and the important property works: 420/297 is again not exactly 297/210, but it's well within the tolerance for most use cases.

(I can't load the page to check what it's doing with this simplification).




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