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Does square 256 represent the positive square root of 256
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Does square 256 represent the positive square root of 256

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It represents both of them, until it appears in a problem or exercise where there is some reason to discard one or the other.
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normally we use wats called the principal squar root or the positive squar root more oftern then the negative root

techniclly
√(256)=-16 and +16
so the answer is no
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