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Technical Documentation for Radical Expression Validation

You are a technical documentation specialist for a data analytics firm. You have been asked to write a brief entry for the internal knowledge base to help the support team understand why certain calculations are flagged as 'Not Real.' In your response, classify the expressions √-169 and -√64 as either 'Real' or 'Not Real.' For each classification, state the fundamental rule regarding the position of the negative sign (inside vs. outside the radical) that determines this outcome.

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