▲ 1176 ▼ nooo my genderinos (mander.xyz) submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 162 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] excral@feddit.org 7 points 11 months ago This is technically incorrect. While the square root is both the positive and the negative solution, the sqrt (√) operator results in the principal square root. For nonnegative numbers this is the nonnegative square root and more generalised for complex numbers it's the square root that halves the complex phase. permalink fedilink source parent [–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 4 points 11 months ago Ah, good point; I'd forgotten that part. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] excral@feddit.org 7 points 11 months ago This is technically incorrect. While the square root is both the positive and the negative solution, the sqrt (√) operator results in the principal square root. For nonnegative numbers this is the nonnegative square root and more generalised for complex numbers it's the square root that halves the complex phase. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 4 points 11 months ago Ah, good point; I'd forgotten that part. permalink fedilink source parent
