what are radicals
The numbers having fractional powers.. like square root of 2, cube root of 5 etc.
A radical is like the square root of something like if you have \[\sqrt{27}\] you would say radical 27
but radical can be any nth root
Radicals are the undoing of exponents. In other words, since 2 squared is 4, radical 4 is 2. The radical sign, equation, is used to indicate “the root” of the number beneath it. If the radical sign has no number written in its leading crook (like this equation, indicating cube root), then it is the square root of the number under the sign that is being indicated. This chapter is concerned with the terminology and operations involving radical expressions. When operating arithmetically on radicals, the radical behaves as if it were a variable. Complex numbers are natural partners of radicals. They result from finding the radical of a negative expression. The imaginary number, i, is used to represent the square root of –1. So, 3 i expresses the simplification of equation.
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