If you are running 32-bit 3.6 on Windows, please test this

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/30/2017 1:35 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45965545/math-sqrt-domain-error-when-square-rooting-a-positive-number 
> 
> 
> reports the following:
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> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16251.1002]
> (c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> 
> C:\Users\Adam>python
> Python 3.6.2 (v3.6.2:5fd33b5, Jul  8 2017, 04:14:34) [MSC v.1900 32 bit 
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import math
>  >>> math.sqrt(1.3)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: math domain error
>  >>>
> 
> I upgraded from version 3.6.1 to 3.6.2 to try to resolve the issue and 
> restarted my computer but it is still occurring. Some numbers are 
> working (1.2, 1.4) and some others are also not working (1.128).
> ----
> 
> Neither installed 64 bit 3.6.2 nor my repository 3.6 32-bit debug build 
> reproduce this.  If anyone has the python.org 32bit 3.6.1/2 releases 
> installed on Windows, please test and report.

Three people have reported that math.sqrt(1.3) works in 32 bit Python on 
64-bit Windows and no one otherwise.  I reported back on SO that the 
problem is likely local.  Thanks for the responses.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy