Introduction to squares and square roots

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We have already familiar with numbers and different types of number,let us try to understand what is square and square root. As soon as we listen to square, what comes to or mind is the geometrical shape called square where all the sides are equal, now are we really going to learn about the geometrical shape square, actually not but we can try to co-relate in understanding the meaning of square number and square root with the help of a figure.

in mathematics, a square is the result of multiplying a number by itself.the verb "to square" is used to denote this operation. squaring is the same as raising to the power 2, and it is denoted by a superscript 2; for instance, the square of any number can be written as 3^2 which is the number 9