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plot of sine, parabola intersection works but solve makes no sense

When I plot a sine and parabola I get two obvious intersections

plot(x^2-5,-10,10,ymax=20) + plot(sin(x),-10,10)

But when I solve to get the two numeric x values, the answer makes no sense.

solve(x^2-5==sin(x),x)
[x == -sqrt(sin(x) + 5), x == sqrt(sin(x) + 5)][C:\fakepath\sinparabola.png](/upfiles/16030016023312979.png)

plot of sine, parabola intersection works but solve makes no sense

When I plot a sine and parabola I get two obvious intersections

plot(x^2-5,-10,10,ymax=20) + plot(sin(x),-10,10)

But when I solve to get the two numeric x values, the answer makes no sense.

solve(x^2-5==sin(x),x)
[x == -sqrt(sin(x) + 5), x == sqrt(sin(x) + 5)][C:\fakepath\sinparabola.png](/upfiles/16030016023312979.png)
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