Question 203016
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In a word, no.  The radical sign tells you to take the square root of the quantity inside of it.  The square root is that number, when multiplied by itself results in the quantity under the radical.


For example, *[tex \Large \sqrt{4} = 2] because *[tex \Large 2 \times 2 = 4]


As to the example you gave, *[tex \Large 7\sqrt{2}], the only way to exactly represent this quantity is just like it is, *[tex \Large 7\sqrt{2}].  That's because *[tex \Large \sqrt{2}] is an irrational number; it cannot be represented as the quotient of two integers.  You can approximate it with a decimal representation to as many digits of precision as you like, but you can never represent it exactly except by writing *[tex \Large \sqrt{2}].


John
*[tex \LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0]
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