eli5 I’m struggling with surds in maths, how on earth do they work?

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eli5 I’m struggling with surds in maths, how on earth do they work?

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Can you be more specific? A surd is just another term for the root of a number. It’s the inverse of exponentiation.

For example, 2^(2) = 4, so the square root of 4 is 2 (and also -2)

2^(3) = 8, so the cubed root of 8 is 2.

Etc.