 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 874 pages
...called involution. Evolution is the inverse of involution, or it is the process which undoes involution. The square root of a number is one of the two equal factors of the number, the cube root one of the three equal factors, and so on; eg, the square root of 16 is... | |
 | Mary Texanna Loomis - Radio - 1927 - 904 pages
...involution. A root of a number is one of the factors of that number. 5X5X5 = 125, hence 5 is a root of 125. The square root of a number is one of the two equal factors of that number. 5 X 5 = 25, hence the square root of 25 is 5. The cube root of a number is one of the... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 688 pages
...stocks, bonds, produce, etc. Discount is an allowance made for the payment of money before it is due. The square root of a number is one of the two equal factors whose product equals that number. Radius is the distance from the center to the circumference of a... | |
 | Edward Ira Edgerton, Perry Amherst Carpenter - Mathematics - 1928 - 392 pages
...In the same way 5 is the square root of 25. n2 is the square of n, and n is the square root of n2. The square root of a number is one of the two equal factors of the number. That is, 9 has two equal factors, 3 and 3. Each of these equal factors is the square... | |
 | Frank R. Spellman, Joanne Drinan - Technology & Engineering - 2000 - 236 pages
...reverse of powers. In a product of equal factors, the repeated factor is called a root of the product. The square root of a number is one of the two equal factors of that number. Thus, 3 is the square root of 9 because 3X3 = 9. The cube root of a number is one of... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Mental arithmetic - 1873 - 188 pages
...power, etc. 27. What is the square, cube, and fourth power of 1 ? 2? 3? 4? 5? 6? 7? 8? 9? 10? 11? 12? The square root of a number is one of the two equal factors of that number ; the cube root, one of the three equal factors ; the fourth root, one of the four equal... | |
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The Square Root of a number is one of the two equal factors that produce the number ; thus the square root of 49 is 7, for 7 X 7 = 49. 
