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If you fold this square to make an isosceles triangle, it would seem that the hypotenuse is four atoms long; equally long as the two legs. But you can see that along the diagonal the atoms are further apart from each other compared to the rows or columns. And they are just enough further apart to effectively create an irrational number of length.

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