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Square Roots and Other Radicals Sponsored by The Center for Teaching and Learning at UIS Radicals - Definition Radicals, or roots, are the opposite operation of applying exponents. A power can be undone with a radical and a radical can be undone with a power. For example, if you square 2, you get 4, and if you take the square root of 4, you get 2; if you square 3, you get 9, and if you take the square root of 9, you get 3: The symbol is called the radical symbol. Technically, just the check mark part of the symbol is the radical; the line across the top is called the vinculum. The expression is read as root nine, radical nine, or the square root of nine. Numbers can be raised to powers other than just 2; you can cube things, raise them to the fourth power, raise them to the 100th power, and so forth. In the same way, you can take the cube root of a number, the fourth root, the 100th root, and so forth. To indicate some root other than a square root, you use the same radical symbol, but you insert a number into the radical, tucking it into the check mark part. For example: The ―3‖ inside the check mark part is the index of the radical. The 64 is the argument of the radical, also called the radicand. Since most radicals you see are square roots, the index is not included on square roots. While would be technically correct, it is not used. Common Radicals: a square (second) root is written as a cube (third) root is written as a fourth root is written as a fifth root is written as: Page | 1 Square Roots and Other Radicals Sponsored by The Center for Teaching and Learning at UIS You can take any counting number, square it, and end up with a nice neat number. But the process doesnt always w