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[โ€“] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This sentence made no sense to me as it directly contradicted the previous one. But it's just a confusion on my part between the function called square root, which confusingly outputs two different numbers called "square roots", and "the" number called square root; I've edited my comment. Thanks for correcting me!

[โ€“] Opisek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I see how that can happen. Very confusing to have the same name for two things differentiated only by the use of a definite or indefinite article.