Watch this video to learn about the rules of surds. For example, \(\sqrt 4 = 2\) is not a surd. However \(\sqrt 5\) is a surd. If you use a calculator, you will see that \(\sqrt 5 = 2.236067977..

mathbf{c^3} \times c^2 = \mathbf{c \times c \times c} \times c \times c\). Writing the indices out in full shows that \(c^3 \times c^2\) means \(c\) has now been multiplied by itself 5 times.