Comment on Conversing with Mathematicians

• sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not how the square root is defined.

  You’re confusing “square root of 100” with “the answer to x^2 = 100”. These are different things.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is why I differentiated between square roots and the principle square root by saying the square roots instead of the square root on the second comment.

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    • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      so you came up with your own term to cover your mistake?

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, I was being pedantic to appease the pedantic assholes.

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      • Dalvoron@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope, everything they said is well established and correct

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems very inaccurate the we can only determine the square root to ±10.

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