[Tutor] newton's square root formula
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Tue Feb 3 09:39:15 CET 2009
"WM." <wferguson1 at socal.rr.com> wrote
># program to find square root
> square = float(raw_input ("Please enter a number to be rooted, "))
> guess = input("Please guess at the root, ")
Actually, I meant you should use raw_input here too...
input() is considered insecure and not recommended.
(In Python v3 it has been removed from the language
and raw_input renamed to input.)
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