[Tutor] RE: Prime Numbers

[Bob Gailer]

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At 10:03 PM 2/26/2003 +0000, ahimsa wrote:
>What does the "s" reference in the piece "sx = x **.5" mean and why ".5"?

sx is my arbitrary choice of a variable to assign the result to.

Mathematical identity: the nth root of a number is the same as raising the 
number to the reciprocal of n.


Bob Gailer
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