4.6 is a better approximation to the square root of 21.
Chat with our AI personalities
3 times the square root of 5
21
The square root and square functions are inverse of one another EXCEPT that square root is not really a function: it is a 1-to-many mapping. So sqrt(square(21)) = sqrt(441) = ±21
It is 2*sqrt(5).
(√(a))²=a The square root and the square cancel to leave just 49/21■