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Four points

I drew a square whose sides were an integral number (less than 80) of centimetres long. Within the top left-hand quarter of the square I marked four points, each of which was an integral number of centimetres, not only from each side of the square but also from both the top left-hand corner and the bottom right-hand corner of the square. How long was each side of the square?

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