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To find the cube root of a number, you want to find some number that when multiplied by itself twice gives you the original number. ... The cube root of 8, then, is 2, because 2 × 2 × 2 = 8. Notice that the symbol for cube root is the radical sign with a small three (called the index) above and to the left .
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