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thumb|right|The diagonals of a cube with side length 1. AC' (shown in blue) is a [[space diagonal with length \sqrt 3, while AC (shown in red) is a face diagonal and has length \sqrt 2.]] thumb|Horizontal (left), vertical (center) and diagonal (right) double arrows.
A diagonal is a line segment connecting two non-adjacent corners of a shape or object, running at an angle rather than along its sides or edges. Diagonals matter because they help us measure distances across shapes, understand their geometric properties, and appear frequently in mathematics, engineering, and design.
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