I need to calculate the square root of some numbers, for example √9 = 3 and √2 = 1.4142. How can I do it in Python?
The inputs will probably be all positive integers, and relatively small (say less than a billion), but just in case they're not, is there anything that might break?
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8 Answers
Option 1: math.sqrt()
The math module from the standard library has a sqrt function to calculate the square root of a number. It takes any type that can be converted to float (which includes int) as an argument and returns a float.
>>> import math
>>> math.sqrt(9)
3.0
