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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Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoI 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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faint_marble_noise@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yes, it is positive, and power 1/2 is, too. Two solutions emerge from solving equations, even primitive ones, like x^2 = C.