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Square root
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a number that produces a particular number when multiplied by itself
square root
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Example
The square root of 16 is 4.
To solve the equation x^2 = 25, we must extract the square root of both sides to find the value of x.
Add these squared numbers together, divide by the number of measurements, and then take the square root of the answer.
The existence of irrational numbers, such as the square root of 2, is indisputable in mathematics despite their non-repeating decimal expansions.
Negative numbers can have imaginary roots, such as the square root of -1 being i.
