square roots
- plural of square root.
Example Sentences
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Your head may be hurting as you recall calculations involving square roots.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
We can estimate square roots using nearby perfect squares.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We can approximate square roots using a calculator.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Then they use square roots to determine the speed, in miles per hour, a car was going before applying the brakes.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
