"WM." 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 remo
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:59 AM, WM. wrote:
> # program to find square root
> square = float(raw_input ("Please enter a number to be rooted, "))
> guess = input("Please guess at the root, ")
> i = 0
> while guess**2 != square:
>i+=1
># Newton's formula
>guess = guess - (gues
# program to find square root
square = float(raw_input ("Please enter a number to be rooted, "))
guess = input("Please guess at the root, ")
i = 0
while guess**2 != square:
i+=1
# Newton's formula
guess = guess - (guess * guess - square) / (guess * 2)
print i
print
