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No. A diagonal goes from corner to opposite corner, which will always be a longer distance than the side length. You can use Pythagoras' theorem to work out the length of the diagonals. It will be the square root of (a2+b2) where a and b are the long and short side lengths of the rectangle respectively. The result will clearly be greater than either a or b.

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