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Anon describes experience (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by LifeLemons@lemmy.ml to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am like not really well informed about this but wasn't the square root symbol thingy (√ <- this one) always set to give the positive root? And the power of 1/2 would give both the positive and negative?

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[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I had to look it up and it looks like you're right. If only my teacher had spent any effort at all explaining that.

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[–] faint_marble_noise@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, it is positive, and power 1/2 is, too. Two solutions emerge from solving equations, even primitive ones, like x^2 = C.

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