principal roots

A form of principal root — A complex number which, when raised to the power of n, yields the radicand of its nth degree radical, and which has the greatest real part among all such numbers, and positive imaginary part in case of equality of the real parts.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of principal root
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