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Preventing Design Errors in Bracket Spacing

In an engineering design workshop, an apprentice is learning to simplify radical expressions used to calculate physical spacing in a customized bracket. When presenting the final simplified design specification (such as writing the result as 72{}7\sqrt{2} millimeters), why does the standard procedure state that the integer factor must always be written in front of the remaining radical?

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