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:/can someome explain how you do squared and how to cube??
I hope this is what you're asking:
In order to square a number, let's call our number "n" all you do is multiply it by itself.
SO:
Thus two squared is four and three squared is nine.
To cube a number all you do is multiply it by itself three times:
So two cubed is eight and three cubed is twenty-seven.
Last edited by bossk171 (2007-09-16 04:04:16)
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who can use induction.
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You can think of it this way:
If you have a horizontal line of length 8, and then add a vertical line also of length 8, you have a 'square'. To find the area of the square, you multiply the two lines together. This is effectively what you are doing when you 'square' a number.. you turn it into a 'square'.
If you then add another line of length 8 in the third dimension, you have a 'cube' that is 8 by 8 by 8, which is 8 'cubed'.
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Technically, to square, you multiply a number by itself once.
So to cube, you multiply a number by itself twice, not thrice,
because you started with one of them.
But this is just silly English getting in the way.
So 3 times 3 times 3 is the same as 3 X 3 X 3, which equals 27.
So 3 cubed is 27.
Now 10 cubed is not 100, that's 10 times 10, so that's 10 squared.
100 times 10 is 1000, so that's 10 cubed.
Now 100 cubed is a million.
Remember that 100 squared is ten-thousand. I love that one.
Also don't forget that 5 squared is twenty-five.
And the square root of 25 is 5, that is going backwards with the ROOT.
The square root of 1 is still 1 because 1 times 1 is 1.
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Technically, to square, you multiply a number by itself once.
So to cube, you multiply a number by itself twice, not thrice,
I noticed that when I wrote it, but I went ahead and wrote it wrong anyways because I thought associating the square with the twice and the cube with the thrice was a godd way to conceptialize it.
I hope I didn't just make things worse.
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who can use induction.
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You never know what the asker is going to think when they read our answers, but the more responses they get the better I guess, since everyone learns differently.
That's why I answer things that other people have already answered, just in hopes that someone will catch on from different ways of saying things.
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:/can someome explain how you do squared and how to cube??
What grade are you in?
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