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-5. The positive square root is also known as the principal square root, and is denoted with a radical sign:

Since the square of every real number is nonnegative, negative numbers do not have real square roots. However, for every negative real number there are two imaginary square roots. For example, the square roots of -25 are 5i and -5i, where i represents a number whose square is .

Cube roots

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