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This calculator is handy for quickly calculating square roots. Plus, if the radicand is not a perfect square, the calculator will list the nearest perfect squares that are greater and less than the radicand. The Learn tab includes answers to:

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Enter the radicand. Note that you can enter non-negative decimal numbers for the radicand. This also means that if you wish to find the square root of a fraction, a mini fraction-to-decimal calculator is located in the pop-up tip for the Radicand line.

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Click the "Calculate Square Root" button. This will find the square root of the radicand and let you know whether or not it is a perfect square. And if not perfect, the result will show the perfect squares nearest to the entered radicand.

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Square roots and perfect squares.

What are Square Roots?

Definition of a square root: The opposite of squaring a number. For example, finding the square root of 81 is the same as asking, "what number when squared is equal to 81?"

Of course, if you know that 9 x 9 = 81, you will know that the square root of 81 is 9 (9² = 81). However, what you might not realize is that -9 is also a square root of 81, because -9 x -9 also equals 81.

In other words, all numbers greater than zero (zero can never be negative or positive) have two square roots -- one positive and one negative. This is why when using an online square root calculator the result will always be preceded by a ± sign.

As for negative numbers, since a negative times a negative always yields a positive number, negative numbers cannot have a real value square root.

What Are Perfect Squares?

When a number has a square root that is a whole number, that number is said to be a perfect square. For example, since √4 has a square root of 2, 4 is said to be a perfect square. Here is a list of the perfect squares up to 225:

List of Perfect Squares up to 225

√1	=	1	since	1²	=	1
√4	=	2	since	2²	=	4
√9	=	3	since	3²	=	9
√16	=	4	since	4²	=	16
√25	=	5	since	5²	=	25
√36	=	6	since	6²	=	36
√49	=	7	since	7²	=	49
√64	=	8	since	8²	=	64
√81	=	9	since	9²	=	81
√100	=	10	since	10²	=	100
√121	=	11	since	11²	=	121
√144	=	12	since	12²	=	144
√169	=	13	since	13²	=	169
√196	=	14	since	14²	=	196
√225	=	15	since	15²	=	225

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