How do you make a square root sign on a computer?
2007-05-04 12:58:56 · 9 answers · asked by J 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
A couple small wrinkles to what has already been answered:
1. If using the radical (√), you should be careful to put into parentheses whatever goes under the written radical's bar. For instance: "√(x+9)" is MUCH more likely to be understood than "√x+9" would be.
2. When using the "^" to indicate taking the preceding value to a power, one can use Alt-0189 (½) for the power of 0.5 in the hope of it being more easily understood: "(x+3^½)^½" rather than "(x+3^0.5)^0.5."
2007-05-04 13:33:04 · answer #1 · answered by roynburton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To give you the same answer I gave when you asked the same question a few minutes ago:
It depends on what interface you're using. With something like MS Word, you can just use equation editor to make a radical. There's an ASCII character for the radical too (U+221A), so you can use an ALT+ keystroke command, or use that in an "alt=" HTML command. When I want to enter one here on Yahoo Answers, I open Character Map (I'm using MS Windows) and just copy and paste the symbol from there.
Otherwise, you should use a format like sqrt(64) or (64)^(1/2)
2007-05-04 13:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alt 251 √
√4 = 2
2007-05-04 13:05:43 · answer #3 · answered by pops 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Two ways(at least on a Windows computer):
left alt+251 works fine.
The second way is to use character map and
copy the square root symbol, then paste it
whenever you need it.
2007-05-04 15:00:16 · answer #4 · answered by steiner1745 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The square root of 20:
20^0.5
^ means raising to a power,
the square root is ^0.5 or ^(1/2)
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2007-05-04 13:02:32 · answer #5 · answered by Robert L 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
go to microsoft word, go to 'insert' and click Object. scroll down and click on Microsoft Equation 3.0, and look for the square root sign
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2007-05-04 13:07:31 · answer #6 · answered by Tato 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
v"""(whatever you need to square root)
lowercase v and several quotation marks followed by parenthesis, if you use microsoft word then you can go to insert ---> symbol-----> and you will eventually find one like this -----> √ i just copied and pasted it from microsoft word 2003. Hope this helps!!!
2007-05-04 13:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by baseballer4life05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sqrt(4) = 2
2007-05-04 13:06:53 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sorry i dont know but if i did i would tell you
2007-05-04 13:32:02 · answer #9 · answered by Wyatt C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋