\({9}\) is a square number. \(3 \times 3 = 9\) \(3 \times 3\) can also be written as \(3^2\). This is pronounced "\({3}\) squared". \({8}\) is a cube number. The ...

May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, ...

Somewhere around middle school, you learned about squaring numbers and the inverse, finding the square root of a number, but a little reminder can't hurt. You square a number when you multiply it by ...

A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer ...