[Tutor] sqrt?

Walter Wefft walterwefft at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 25 06:09:42 CEST 2010


Kirk Z Bailey wrote:
> ok gang, My desktop runs 2.5, and for my college algebra I needed to do 
> som quadratic equation work. This involves squareroots. So I fired uop 
> the interactive idle and imported math. I then tried to play with sqrt.
> 
> Nothing.
> 
> Importing math does not import a sqrt function.
> 
> Now riddle me this: if string.foo makes it do a function FOO on a 
> string, whyfore and howcome does math.sqrt not do square roots on a 
> simple number like 4???
> 

Show us the code that you wrote.

> I am now officiciously pissed.
> 

“It’s not that I’m so smart,
it’s just that I stay with problems longer.“
Albert Einstein



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