Squaring is multiplying the number twice, so that means: -1 * -1. A negative times a negative equals a positive, and 1 times 1 equals 1, so -12 is 1.
What is the 1 squared number?
Square Numbers
The first square number is 1 because. The first fifteen square numbers are: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196 and 225.
Is there a 1 squared?
Informally: When you multiply an integer (a “whole” number, positive, negative or zero) times itself, the resulting product is called a square number, or a perfect square or simply “a square.” So, 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, and so on, are all square numbers.
