Square root
The square root of a number was a second number that when multiplied by itself once became the first number.

Calculating the square root was a common and useful albeit boring and complex mathematical operation. For example, Data once told a very boring "anecdote" about how he calculated the square root of  as a way of determining the distance between two stellar objects. ()

During a Ferengi takeover of the  in 2369, William T. Riker succeeded in confusing a Ferengi which had ordered him to explain the computer by spewing overtly complex and confusing information. Among his claims were that the ramistat kiloquad capacity was a function of the square root of the intermix ratio times the sum of the plasma injector quotient. ()

In 2373, while Odo and Quark were stranded on an uninhabited planet and forced to ascend to higher terrain, Quark estimated the height of a mountain saying "carry the seven, take the square root, times pi". His result was that the mountain was "high". ()

Mortimer Harren's 2376 theorem made use of square roots. ()

See also
Cube root

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