SOLUTION: does this sign ^ mean sqaure root??

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Question 23230: does this sign ^ mean sqaure root??
Answer by rapaljer(4671) About Me  (Show Source):
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This is the "carat" symbol, which means raised to the power. It's actually the opposite of square root. If you wanted to square 5, you would write
5^2 or 5%5E2 which would be 25. However, if you wanted to start with 25 and go back to 5, you would take the square root of 25, which is sqrt%2825%29+, and the answer would be 5.

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