Why is the most powerful user on a Unix/Linux system called “root?”

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00:00 Question
00:42 Accepted answer (Score 86)
01:32 Answer 2 (Score 8)
05:22 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1287877/...

Question links:
[by this other question on the use of the term “Super User”]: https://superuser.com/q/1287469/167207

Accepted answer links:
[Multics]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
[Dennis Ritchie]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rit...
[Ken Thompson]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thomps...
[Wikipedia: Superuser]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser#...

Answer 2 links:
[1]: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Unix-su...
[2]: http://www.linfo.org/root.html
[2]: http://www.linfo.org/root.html

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