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51root — 1. In many operating systems, the name of the directory at the top of the directory tree from which all other directories are descended. 2. In Unix, the name of the superuser, user number 0. The system administrator uses this account for… …
52Number Four — The expression Number Four can refer to: 4 (number), a number, numeral, and glyph A hamlet in the town of Watson, New York #4, the pseudonym of American musician Jim Root, when performing with Slipknot A character from the Earthworm Jim video… …
53root — ruËt n. part of a plant growing underground which anchors the plant and absorbs water and nutrients; part which anchors; source, origin; base, fundamental part; number that multiplied by itself yields a given number (Mathematics) v. plant, cause …
54root of unity — Math. a complex number that when raised to some positive integral power results in 1. * * * …
55root of unity — a real or complex solution of the equation xn 1 . 0 where n is an integer * * * Math. a complex number that when raised to some positive integral power results in 1 …
56Square root — Measured fall time of a small steel sphere falling from various heights. The data is in good agreement with the predicted fall time of , where h is the height and g is the acceleration of gravity. In mathematics, a square root of a number x is a… …
57nth root — In mathematics, the nth root of a number x is a number r which, when raised to the power of n, equals x rn = x, where n is the degree of the root. A root of degree 2 is usually called a square root and a root of degree 3, a cube root. For example …
58Cube root — Plot of y = for . Complete plot is symmetric with respect to origin, as it is an odd function. At x = 0 this graph has a vertical tangent. In mathematics, a cube root of a number, denoted …
59Primitive root modulo n — In modular arithmetic, a branch of number theory, a primitive root modulo n is any number g with the property that any number coprime to n is congruent to a power of g (mod n ). That is, if g is a primitive root (mod n ) and gcd( a , n ) = 1,… …
60Nth root — In mathematics, an n th root of a number a is a number b such that bn = a . When referring to the n th root of a real number a it is assumed that what is desired is the principal n th root of the number, which is denoted sqrt [n] {a} using the… …
