# Lesson goal: Taking square roots

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Programming languages often have built in mathematical functions, that do much more than add, subtract, multiply and divide. In this lesson, we'll look at two, the square root.

If you recall, the square root of some number is another number, when multipilied by itself, gives the original number. So for example, the square root of 25 is 5, since $5\times 5=25$, and the square root of 9 is 3 (since $3\times 3=9$). In math sense, this would be written as $\sqrt{25}=5$ and $\sqrt{9}=3$.

Here is how the computer will compute a square root (note that sqrt is short for "SQuare RooT"):

math.sqrt(some-number)
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The prefix of math. means that sqrt is included in the "math" library that the computer knows about.

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