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Did you know that square root symbol, in early mathematicians used the term radix. The Latin word of root, When they wrote about the square root of numbers. The square root symbol later evolve from rx, and abbreviation of the word radix.

The symbol square root used today first appeared in print in 1525 in the book Die Cross by Christoff Rudolff. It is said to have come from the German form of the letter r. It was in the seventeenth history that square root became the standard symbol for square root. The source is from Course 2, p. 370, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston