When people use the term squared in regular conversations they usually mean double.
When referring to two similar things people say "its like something squared"
1 squared is 1 and 2 squared is 4. Which one are you talking about.
If you are talking about one thing and calling it sqaured because 1 sqaured is one, I will listen and ask youva question why you did that and then laugh really hard when I realize how absurd you are.
You could be talking about the square root of 2.  But that would be just as abdurf as one.

I took a math test and for every answer I wrote 0 and at the bottom of the test I wrote, "Answers rounded to the nearest hundred thousand"
This joke does better in geometry class.