Writing square-roots

One of the ways ro specify the square root of the non-negative real number r is

[MATH]\sqrt{r}.[/MATH]
 
Another way is \(\displaystyle r^{\frac{1}{2}}\).

Using Latex, those would be \sqrt{r} and r^{\frac{1}{2}} between [ tex ] and [ \tex ] (without the spaces).
 
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