Thanks for that, too! Would be interesting to learn how these different algorithms influence the precision of the result!?
"Boris Borcic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > siggi wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> this is a newbie question on : >> Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] >> on >> win32 >> PC with WinXP >> >> In >> http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-math.html >> I read: >> >> "sqrt( x) Return the square root of x." >> >> Now the test for module math with function pow(): >> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> pow(9,9) >> 387420489 >> >> Fine, but sqrt() fails: >> ------------------- > > BTW note that (of course) you can write pow(x,.5) or x**.5 for sqrt(x) > without any preliminary import statement -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
