imaginary numbers. but no, not really.
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The square roots of any positive real number are a positive and a negative real number. The square roots of any negative real number are a positive and a negative imaginary number. The square roots of any imaginary number or any complex number are two complex numbers.
Any negative number, and infinity. However, a number (called "i") was created to represent the square roots of negative numbers.
Every positive number has two square roots, though the roots are not always whole numbers (or even rational numbers). The more obvious of each numbers roots is the positive one.The positive square root of 4 is 2, because 2*2=4.The positive square root of 5 is roughly 2.236068.The other square root of a number is the negative inverse of their positive root. This is because when two negative numbers are multiplied together the negative signs "cancel out", leaving a positive number.The negative square root of 4 is -2, because -2*-2=4.The negative square root of 5 is roughly -2.236068.Zero has only one square root, itself, and no negative number has any (real number) square roots, since no number multiplied by itself will result in a negative.
negative always
There is no real number multiplied by itself that equals -72, or any negative number, for that matter. In fact there are no even roots of negative numbers. However, odd roots of negative numbers are entirely possible. For instance, the cube root of -64 is -4 ... rather, ( -4 ) ( -4 ) ( -4 ) = -64