transformTranslate distorts the polygon shape
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Description
Turf 6.5.0
TransformTranslate distorts the shape when translated across bigger distances, this is visible in this example, when used transformTransalte with parameters 2000, 66.
const leningrTranslated = transformTranslate(leningr.data, 2000, 66);
The original shape:

And transformed shape:

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Research direction
Start with the transformTranslate entry point and reproduce the reported case using leningr.data with parameters 2000 and 66. Compare the original and transformed polygon shapes, then verify that translation across larger distances no longer distorts the geometry.
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- typescript
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