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#76 2013-08-11 10:09:04

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Re: Change your subject.

Sometimes you might call t =0 today for instance. You could run the equation back to t=-3. That would be 3 days ago. The variable can take negative values.


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#77 2013-11-13 21:53:01

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Re: Change your subject.

Is a member trying to indicate that a  number in a principal square root must have only one answer?
For instance, if 9 is in a principal square root, must it have only one answer 3?

If I am getting him wrong please correct.

Thanks.

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#78 2013-11-13 22:15:40

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Re: Change your subject.

The fellow's post is at #38.

What is the subtle difference between, a square root and a principal square root?

Thanks.


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#79 2013-11-14 03:45:11

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Re: Change your subject.

Hi;

The unique nonnegative square root of a nonnegative real number. For example, the principal square root of 9 is 3, although both -3 and 3 are square roots of 9.


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#80 2013-11-14 20:40:07

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Re: Change your subject.

So if I am grasping it now, the principal square of a number produces only positive number.

Therefore, the principal square root  always infers a positive number.
Am I right?

Please confirm.


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#81 2013-11-14 20:49:49

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Re: Change your subject.

Hi,

Please produce both the principal and the square root signs. So I will know thew properly


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#82 2013-11-14 20:50:48

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Re: Change your subject.

Therefore, the principal square root  always infers a positive number.

I would say yes.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/square-root.html


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#83 2013-11-14 21:33:04

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Re: Change your subject.

Hi,

I have browsed the link you provided, but couldn't distinguish the principal square root sign from the square root sign.

Some help.


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#84 2013-11-14 21:39:03

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Re: Change your subject.

The square root sign

is usually used to indicate the principle square root of a number.


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#85 2013-11-15 02:10:19

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Re: Change your subject.

Hi;

Yep, that means positive root only.


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#86 2013-11-15 02:38:34

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Re: Change your subject.

Okay, what name do we give to a negative square root of a number? Since the positive root number has a name.

Thanks in advance.


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#87 2013-11-15 02:44:09

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Re: Change your subject.

They are called complex or imaginary numbers.


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#88 2013-11-15 02:55:59

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Re: Change your subject.

Okay, finally finally.
If I am getting
the whole thing, The square root of 9 is 3 and -3.
the 3 is the prıncipal square root whereas the negative square root -3 is complex or imaginary square root, am I correct?
Please confirm.


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#89 2013-11-15 02:58:40

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Re: Change your subject.

Both 3 and -3 when squared are 9. But only 3 is the principal square root.

√(-3) is complex or imaginary.


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#90 2013-11-15 03:10:06

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Re: Change your subject.

Please do you have an idea as to why it is called complex or imaginary?


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#91 2013-11-15 03:14:25

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Re: Change your subject.

It was called imaginary because in the beginning when the concept of the root of a negative number was proposed most mathematicians did not like it. They called them imaginary numbers to sort of poke fun at the whole idea. Later, as it caught on, complex numbers was name given for them.


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#92 2013-11-15 03:52:23

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Re: Change your subject.

Thanks for that!

But when 9 is in a square root sign it gives two answers i.e -3 and 3.
if the positive number is the principal square root what name is also given to the -3?


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#93 2013-11-15 03:56:02

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Re: Change your subject.

When 9 is in the square root sign that means principal square root, just the 3.


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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#94 2013-11-15 06:25:22

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Re: Change your subject.

He is asking this:"If we call 3 the principal square root of 9, then what kind of square root of 9 is -3?". The answer is that there is no name given to it.


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#95 2013-11-15 06:34:17

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Re: Change your subject.

We could say it is the root of the equation x^2 - 9 = 0.


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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#96 2013-11-15 06:36:30

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Re: Change your subject.

We could, but, there is still no special name for non-principal roots.


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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#97 2013-11-15 06:41:25

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Re: Change your subject.

Everything you are saying is true but you are missing the point of my post #93 which essentially makes your post #94 non - essential.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#98 2013-11-15 06:55:46

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Re: Change your subject.

Actually, #94 is me feeling you have not understood the question.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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#99 2013-11-15 06:57:57

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Re: Change your subject.

Nope, I was dealing with a far more important concept and did not answer that question. Do you see it now?


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#100 2013-11-15 13:54:31

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Re: Change your subject.

But, what you said in #93 was already told and did not need repeating.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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