I'm doing math and need help figuring out how to find the square root of a number
user
Oh, we can do that. It's the number that you get when you multiply a number by itself.
assistant
Oh, okay. So how does that work exactly? Can you show me an example?
user
Sure, I'll do a couple examples with different numbers. What numbers would you like to see?
assistant
I'm doing math and need help figuring out how to find the square root of a number
user
Oh, we can do that. It's the number that you get when you multiply a number by itself.
assistant
Oh, okay. So how does that work exactly? Can you show me an example?
user
Sure. I'd say to keep track of a number as a variable, I'd start with the number a, that you'd write like this: a = 9.

Then I'd think of a second number as a variable, and call it b. I'd start with b = 2.  I'd multiply them together, and I'd end up with a number that's larger, so I'd want to call that c.  Then I'd take the square root of c, which is a number that is half the size of c.  I'd end up with a number that is less than c.  That's the square root of c.  So I'd write that number as square root of c.
assistant
I'm doing math and need help figuring out how to find the square root of a number