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When (if) you learn more advanced mathematics you will find that there are, in fact 3 cube roots for any non-zero number (in the complex field). In general, there are n nth roots (de Moivre's theorem). However, only one of the cube roots can be a real number, the other two are complex numbers.

The reason is that the product of a pair of negative numbers is positive. As a result both x and -x are square roots of x^2. But the product of three negative numbers is itself negative, so for cube roots the signs match up.

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