I don't remember the exact context, but I ended up doing that in reverse once to figure out how wide a TV was that I didn't have definite dimensions for: Take the known diagonal measurement, substitute 9L/16 for the height, expand everything out and solve the equation. Add a couple extra inches for the screen borders, and I had the size I needed.
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