as in fourth root, twentieth root, etc. The computation of an th root is a root extraction.

The th root of is written as using the radical symbol . The square root is usually written as , with the degree omitted. Taking the th root of a number, for fixed , is the inverse of raising a number to the th power, and can be written as a fractional exponent:

For a positive real number , denotes

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