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because visually, it adds another dimension to it making it a square

for example

we have a 5 unit line:

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then we square it (make it a square)

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if the unit sizes were the same then it would be a square since it's 5x5

same thing with cubing numbers, it adds a 3rd dimension to it with the same amount of units, so it makes it a cube

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