Is there a way to customise math.sqrt(x) for some x?

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On Jul 16, 3:35 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> I have a custom object that customises the usual maths functions and
> operators, such as addition, multiplication, math.ceil etc.
>
> Is there a way to also customise math.sqrt? I don't think there is, but I
> may have missed something.

Hmm, this question should win ambiguous award of the year. Here, allow
me to answer by proxy.

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