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WordPad is not meant to handle the typesetting and display of mathematical expressions. You can use this radical symbol: √ to display simple square roots, but you can't extend the mark above the thing you're taking the square root of. To display more complex expressions, you need a program like MathType, which is specifically designed to typeset math.
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What is the symbol used to denote a square root called?
That symbol is called the radical.
Simplify the square root of 512?
The idea is to take out perfect squares. The largest perfect square in this case is 256, which is the square of 16 (if you have trouble figuring this out, you can take out a smaller perfect square first, and then see if you find additional perfect squares). In any case, the end result should not have a factor that is a perfect square. Using the symbol "root()" for square root: root(512) = root(256 x 2) = root(256) x root(2) = 16 root(2)
Can a perfect square have a negative square root?
If a is any number, then a squared = (-a) squared, so one might say that a and -a are both square roots of a squared. However, the square root symbol always means the positive square root.
Who invented the radical symbol?
According to Wikipedia, article on "Square root": "The symbol '√' for the square root was first used in print in 1525 in Christoph Rudolff's Coss, which was also the first to use the then-new signs '+' and '−'."
How do you find the square root of 900 using a factor tree?
The square root of 900 is 30 and it is a factor of 900
