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No. There is no real number which multiplied by itself forms a negative number.

A negative times a negative is a positive, and only a positive times a negative is a negative.

However, in calculus there is an "imaginary value" (called i ) which represents the square root of -1.

Square roots of larger negative numbers are represented by the square of the absolute value times i .

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