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Examples of cube root in a Sentence
The cube root of 8 is 2.
Recent Examples on the Web
What’s the cube root of 27?
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 July 2021
Simply taking the cube root of this number, this is the volume of a cube 92 meters on a side.
—John Conway, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
If true, then the coefficients of G are actually bounded by the cube root of 10 (about 2.15), and not just its square root.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2022
This led to his theory of surreal numbers — a huge new number system containing not only all the real numbers, but also a boggling collection of infinites and infinitesimals, like π minus 1 divided by the cube root of infinity.
—New York Times, 16 May 2020
In mathematical terms, the amplitude for exchange of our quarticles will be multiplied by the cube root of –1.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
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First Known Use
1679, in the meaning defined above
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“Cube root.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cube%20root. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
cube root
noun
: a number whose cube is a given number
the cube root of 27 is 3
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