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The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second .

The magnitude of the square root of that quantity is roughly 17,314.5 ,
and its unit is [ square root of (meter / second) ] .

The square root of a speed has no physical significance or meaning.

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The square root of the speed of light is a number having no meaning in meaningless units.

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What is the square root of the speed of light?

Answser: 431.277173 miles/secAnswer: As far as I know, it doesn't make much sense to calculate the square root of a speed. If you do calculate the square root of a speed, the answer will definitely not be in miles/second, but in root-miles per root-second... whatever that means. To get the energy equivalent of a mass, the SQUARE (not the square root) of the speed of light is used. If the speed of light is expressed in meters/second, the square of this will be in square meters per square second.


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