Arithmetically compute a square root by an algorithm
      Geometrically find a square root.
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IN MATH: 1. n. of a number, that number raised to the one half power. 2. n. a operation which, for positives, undoes squaring.

The square root of a number, (n).
Here the domain on this page is nonnegative values.
 
 

IN ENGLISH: 1. as defined above.

APPLICATION: See list 270.

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