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inside of it is called the radicand. The whole thing represents the positive number that when multiplied by itself results in the radicand. That is to say:\r
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is a perfect square, that is a number like 4, 25, or 15,241,383,936 (which is 123,456 * 123,456), then the result of taking the square root of

will be an irrational number. Irrational numbers are numbers that cannot be expressed as the quotient of two integers.\r
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