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by majewsky 2897 days ago
The point is that "inverse" usually refers to the function that reverses the effect of the original function, i.e.

  f_inv(f(x)) = x for all x in Domain(f)
g(x) = 1 / sqrt(x) is not the inverse of f(x) = sqrt(x) in this sense.