36 (number) 36 (number) 36 (thirty-six) is the natural number following 35 and preceding 37. 36 is both the square of six and a triangular number, making it a square triangular number. It is the smallest square triangular number other than one, and it is also the only triangular number other than one whose square root is also a triangular number. It is also a circular number- a square number that ends with the same integer by itself (6×6=36). It is the smallest number "n" with exactly eight solutions to the equation φ("x") = "n". Being the smallest number with exactly nine
Square root of 2 Square root of 2 The square root of 2, or the (1/2)th power of 2, written in mathematics as or , is the positive algebraic number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number 2. Technically, it is called the principal square root of 2, to distinguish it from the negative number with the same property. Geometrically the square root of 2 is the length of a diagonal across a square with sides of one unit of length; this follows from the Pythagorean theorem. It was probably the first number known to be irrational. As a good rational approximation for