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minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoEh, not really. It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure the rule in algebra when solving for a squared variable like this is to use ± for exactly that reason.
minus-squareknorke3@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agojust wait for n-th roots of imaginary numbers :)
-3 feels like cheating.
Eh, not really. It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure the rule in algebra when solving for a squared variable like this is to use ± for exactly that reason.
just wait for n-th roots of imaginary numbers :)