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How to find thesquare root of 5?
 Sep 29, 2013
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Can you explain better what you want to know?
root 5 is an irrational number which means that it cannot be written exactly as a fraction or a decimal.
You can get an estimate from your calculator.
I probably haven't answered your question.
 Sep 29, 2013
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The estimated square root of 5 is the square root of 4 which is 2.
The real number for it is 2.2360679775.
 Sep 29, 2013
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root 2 is an irrational number. 2.2360679775 is still an approximation.
 Sep 29, 2013

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