Mathematically speaking, another way to think about it is this:
sqrt(x**2) != x (same reasoning, try x < 0)
A little more generically:
sqrt(x**2) == norm(x) ("2 norm of x")
You may (not) be interested in this wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(mathematics)
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