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🧮 A math function 🧮 To find root
to sqrt

to sqrt

9.1
To calculate the number that times itself equals the given number
  • verb
  • Specialized
translation icon : calcular la raíz cuadrada
  • When calculating distances, you often need to sqrt the sum of the squared differences.

Examples

  • So the formula for computing this is you take sqrt a * a + b * b.

  • To find the side length of a square, you can sqrt the area of the square.

  • Take Y to be equal to sqrt m * X.

  • So we get sqrt -e * sqrt -e.

  • So U = sqrt y, OK, U = sqrt y.

  • We start with our production function Q = sqrt l * K OK.

  • In programming, you can use the function sqrt to compute the square root of a number efficiently.

Synonyms

to extract
vsto sqrt
  • Specialized
1 8.4

To find a number that, when multiplied by itself the required number of times, gives the original number

calculates only the square root rather than other roots

Surface Forms

sqrt infinitive

Etymology

Sqrt used as a verb is programmer shorthand for square root, meaning 'find the number that, when multiplied by itself, equals the original number', so to sqrt a value is to calculate its square root.