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Because when you multiply it by itself, the result is 6 . That's what "square root" means.

If you try it now, you'll say that we lied to you. Multiply 2.449 by itself, and you

get 5.997601, not 6 , because 2.449 is not exactly the square root of 6 .

So what is exactly the square root of 6 ? It's a number that you can never write down.

You can get as close as you want, but you can never write it exactly with digits.

2.449489743 is closer than 2.449, but it's still not exactly the square root of 6.

That's why there's a special symbol in math that means "square root of".

It looks like this:

√6
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