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Incompletely simplified Square root.

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Subject: [mg121050] Incompletely simplified Square root.
From: paulvonhippel at yahoo <paulvonhippel at yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:04:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Can someone tell me why the following input doesn't produce an output
of 0.68....?
Why is the output under the radical? Thanks!

In[574]:= Sqrt[\!\(\*
TagBox[
FractionBox["926", "2025"],
PolynomialForm]\)] // N

Out[574]= Sqrt[\!\(\*
TagBox["0.45728395061728394`",
PolynomialForm]\)]

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