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Engineers and scientists do work with square roots of negative numbers,

but when they do, the square root is called an "imaginary" number, and

they need a special symbol for it.

For our purposes, and the level of math typically encountered here on WikiAnswers,

the best answer is simply to point out that you can't find any number which, when you

multiply it by itself, gives you a negative answer, so there's no such thing as the

square root of a negative number.

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