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  • \$\begingroup\$ @TheSimpliFire Mathematically, it is equivalent, but numerically, it isn't: using the square instead of the absolute value leads to the wrong value for large input. (Try it online.) \$\endgroup\$ Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 15:42