Basic Answer to very basic, how do you find square roots?

[Michaell Taylor]

Umm.  Why not  just 

x**.5

to find sqrt of x.






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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:36:56 +0530
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>>> import math
>>> math.pow(2,4)
16.0
>>> math.pow(2, .5)
1.41421356237

Regards,

Sandipan
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Subject: very basic, how do you find square roots?


> Yes, that is my question :)
> I am trying to make a program that dose the quadratic equation.
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