Comment by Tainnor
4 days ago
Square roots are not some "mathematical trivia", they're amongst the most fundamental operations in mathematics.
4 days ago
Square roots are not some "mathematical trivia", they're amongst the most fundamental operations in mathematics.
In arithmetic. There is a lot more to math than arithmetic.
Square roots are fundamental to (real and complex) analysis and to algebra (in the study of polynomials), so the two major branches of modern mathematics.
They are fundamental to the arithmetic used in analysis and algebra.
One can get along quite well without them once you replace the arithmetic expressions with more general objects.
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