the square root of a number is: one number times itself equals that number. Confusing '-' An example is the square of 4 is 2 because 2 times 2 = 4, or the square root of 56 is 8 because 8 times 8 is 64. The square root of 175 is about 13.22875 because 13.22875 times 13.22875 = about 175