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Is it impossible to raise to the power of 2 and get a value less than the original number

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Any positive decimal less than 1 will get a value less than the original
User Inspire
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No it's not. If you raise any decimal number less than one to a power of 2, the number just gets smaller.

Hope this helps & makes sense ! (:
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