The square root radical never indicates a negative number. Therefore the right side of the above equation cannot be negative. Therefore the left side, which begins with a negative sign, could only have value 0. However that would make be 0, which would give . However, if we substitute in the right side we get which is undefined with real numbers. So, there is no solution unless the - sign in front of the left side was typo. If it was a typo, post again without the typo. Edwin