How to Use square root in a Sentence

square root

noun

• The square root of 9 is 3.
• If the primes are close then a is close to the square root of N.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
• The golden ratio, meanwhile, can be written as one-half of the sum of 1 plus the square root of 5.
  — Elizabeth Landau, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
• Now sing these lyrics: Neg-a-tive b, plus or minus The square root of b squared mi-nus four a c All!
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• The next step in weirdness leads to the imaginary numbers like i, which is the symbol for the square root of -1.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
• Similarly, a root of x2 − 2, the square root of 2, is formed using the eighth roots of unity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2021
• We weight polls using a function that involves the square root of its sample size.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• Coffee and tea shops per capita is by the square root of the population.
  — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
• Ullisch’s solution is not something simple like the square root of 2.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• Taking the square root of −1 led to an entirely new system of arithmetic.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• This allows guessing the value a by starting with the square root of N and then incrementing the guess by one each round.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
• As n, the number of dimensions, grows, the sphere’s surface area increases in proportion to the square root of n.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• Deutsche's Ryan, on the other hand, prefers a more unusual shape: the square root symbol recovery.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 7 June 2020
• Many people may have an irrational number in mind, such as pi (π), Euler’s number (e) or the square root of 2.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• Math has many important constants that give the discipline structure, like pi and i, the imaginary number equal to the square root of -1.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2021
• Suppose the calculator app wasn’t devised to do square roots.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• But people tried to solve cubic equations and, in the process of doing that, invented the square root of negative numbers.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2015
• Even though the $16 contribution is four times the $4 contribution, its square root is only twice as much.
  — Puja Ohlhaver, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
• The generative AI would then be unable to get an answer to a question about a square root that someone might have entered into a prompt.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• To make this work, the mass of the tachyon has to be imaginary, but in the mathematical sense: Its mass would be multiplied by a factor of the square root of negative one.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Complex numbers have two parts, one real and one imaginary, the latter of which relates to the imaginary number i, defined as the square root of −1.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
• The 1996 algorithm required a number of computational steps that was roughly proportional to the square root of the number of nodes in the graph.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• To solve the matching problem classically, Alice has to send Bob an amount of information proportional to the square root of the number of balls.
  — Kevin Hartnett, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2018
• This distinguishes it again from more familiar irrational numbers like the square root of two (whose second power is equal to two).
  — Dan Rockmore /, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018
• The income points in the study apply to single-person households, the authors note, but can be determined for families by multiplying the figure by the square root of a household size.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2018
• One of the most surprising and important mathematical findings is the irrationality of the square root of 2 (√2)—the length of the diagonal of a square with sides that are one unit long.
  — Jean-Paul Delahaye, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2021
• Fortune’s Anne Srader explores the possibilities–U, check mark, Nike swoosh, square root symbol, etc.–here.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 8 June 2020
• Every number has two square roots, one positive and one negative, and a similar doubling can occur in physics equations.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
• Imagine trying to puzzle out a square root by hand rather than using a calculator—the computing power majorly boosts your chances of success.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2021
• Mathematically, this is accomplished by taking the square root of each state contribution as a first step.
  — Puja Ohlhaver, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024