[Tutor] hypotenuse

[Brett Wilkins]

import math

math.sqrt(intNumber)


Cheers,
Brett


> I am in an early lesson in "A Byte of Python."  Instead of writing a
> program
> to find the area of a rectangle I thought it would be useful to write a
> program to determine the length of the diagonal of a "golden rectangle",
> which would of course equal the sq root of the sum of the squares of
> the width and height.  Here is my program:
>>>> height = input ("Height:")
> Height:1
>>>> width = input ("Width:")
> Width:1.618
>>>> int = ((height**2) + (width**2))
>>>> print int
> 3.617924
>>>> hypotenuse * hypotenuse = int
> SyntaxError: can't assign to operator
>
> I looked ahead in the lesson and could find no mention of square roots.
> How
> do I find the square root of an integer?
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