What is the square root of 2?

Here we will explain and calculate the square root of 2. First, note that the square root of 2 can be written with a mathematical symbol like this:

√2

When we calculate the square root of 2, the answer is the number (n) that you can multiply by itself that will equal 2. In other words, n × n should equal 2. Therefore, the equation to solve the problem is as follows:

n² = 2

And when we solve the equation above, we get the answer to the square root of 2:

√2 ≈ 1.4142135623731

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