Re: Plus/minus square roots?


<evolnet.regular@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've always thought that every positive integer had two square roots,
> but then I came across this website that said that the sign of a square
> root was dependent on the sign of its corresponding square. So what's
> the deal, physicians? Who's right; them or me?

Which website?


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