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authorAnindya Srivastava <sanindya-iiitd@users.noreply.github.com>2019-02-01 21:55:22 +0530
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-02-01 21:55:22 +0530
commitfa9f9fd5639458b7865a48192c4dc18e7ef15d66 (patch)
tree06f39eae58934581b8e1a43979a06cfac239f6b6
parent63abe3316cc22d64c6612d3c092e57058d61158d (diff)
Type correction for the output of math.sqrt()
Both in Python 2.7.10 and Python 3.6.5, math.sqrt() returns a float and not int. It seems like a tiny thing but sometimes may lead up to bigger confusions. For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54474037/why-are-the-following-codes-giving-me-different-output-square-root-big-numbers/54475501#54475501
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diff --git a/python.html.markdown b/python.html.markdown
index df1ca6f2..651927a7 100644
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@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ i.age # => raises an AttributeError
# You can import modules
import math
-print math.sqrt(16) # => 4
+print math.sqrt(16) # => 4.0
# You can get specific functions from a module
from math import ceil, floor