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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A square root!
The answer to the calculation is simply called the square root.
One definition of "root" is "the basic cause, source, or origin of something." The source of a perfect square is the number that was multiplied by itself to create it: the root of the square, the square root.
The square root sign is called a radical
The square root of a negative value is called an imaginary number.