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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (11 children)

The squareroot of 100 is ±10.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (10 children)

The square root is always positive, but you can plug it into the quadratic formula to get the two possible values.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Okay, fine the square roots of 100 are ±10.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope, everything they said is well established and correct

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oops, my bad

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