ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Radical 32

Okay kiddo! So, have you heard of the word "radical" before? It's kind of like a special sign that we use in math. It looks like a little checkmark or a squiggly line with a number inside.

Now, let's talk about the number 32. Do you know what that looks like? It's just a regular old number, right?

So, when we put the radical sign in front of the number 32, it means we want to find the square root of 32.

Have you ever heard of a square root? It's kind of like asking "what number times itself equals 32?"

And after doing some math, we can figure out that the answer is about 5.66!

So, radical 32 is asking us to find the square root of 32, which happens to be about 5.66.