Examples of cube root in a Sentence
The cube root of 8 is 2.
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Around the same time, a team unconnected to Assadi posted their own result that reduced the edge coloring time to the order of m times the cube root of n (opens a new tab).
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Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2025
Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.
—William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
Other rings of integers can be built out of sets of numbers that include, say, the square root of −1 (the imaginary number that mathematicians call i), or the cube root of 2.
—Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2025
What’s the cube root of 27?
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 July 2021
This led to his theory of surreal numbers — a huge new number system containing not only all the real numbers, but also a boggling collection of infinites and infinitesimals, like π minus 1 divided by the cube root of infinity.
—New York Times, 16 May 2020
Simply taking the cube root of this number, this is the volume of a cube 92 meters on a side.
—John Conway, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
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Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2025
Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.
—William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
Other rings of integers can be built out of sets of numbers that include, say, the square root of −1 (the imaginary number that mathematicians call i), or the cube root of 2.
—Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2025
What’s the cube root of 27?
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 July 2021
This led to his theory of surreal numbers — a huge new number system containing not only all the real numbers, but also a boggling collection of infinites and infinitesimals, like π minus 1 divided by the cube root of infinity.
—New York Times, 16 May 2020
Simply taking the cube root of this number, this is the volume of a cube 92 meters on a side.
—John Conway, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
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“Cube root.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cube%20root. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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