Me: Okay, so you guys can see how a radical is the opposite of an exponent, right? The square root sign is like the "undo" for the square.
Student: Wait wait, let me guess. Now you're going to tell us that "square root" is from the Hebrew word for "find the opposite of", right? Just cut to the chase, we don't really need to know the Latin origin."
Not quite...
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