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When you square a number, you are referring to the area of a square, where the number you are squaring is a side length. The square root is a method of finding a side length when you know the area.

Ans-2: because that is the root element. Say sq.root(4) --> 2, because 2 is the fundamental element on which it was built. Same goes for cube root. cube.root(8) is 2 because again here this is the fundamental element on which it was build.

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