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jbriggs444
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I mean take off the minus sign. You cannot take the square root of a negative number. So you take the square root of its absolute value instead.Chenkel said:If dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - (c*dt)^2 is negative and I can invert it and take the square root? What do you mean by invert?
[Yes, we know about imaginary numbers like the square root of minus one. But that is a road that you do not want to go down in this context. It does not end up being helpful].