• CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    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!

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      17 days 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.