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An inverse operation is one that undoes a previous operation. For example -7 undoes the result of +7, ×3 undoes ÷3. Square and square root are inverse operations.

The inverse operation of raising a positive number to power n is raising the result of this operation to power 1/n.
Note that , the square root of n
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