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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So close yet so far. If only you had read ONE more paragraph.

Every nonnegative real number x has a unique nonnegative square root, called the principal square root or simply the square root (with a definite article, see below), which is denoted by √x where the symbol "√" is called the radical sign or radix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.