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The answer is exact, only the display is truncated.

sage: P = Polyhedron([[0,0], [1,1]])
sage: v = P.volume(measure='induced'); v
1.414213562373095?
sage: parent(v)
Algebraic Real Field
sage: v.minpoly()
x^2 - 2

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