I am in an early lesson in "A Byte of Python." Instead of writing a program to find the area of a rectangle I thought it would be useful to write a program to determine the length of the diagonal of a "golden rectangle", which would of course equal the sq root of the sum of the squares of the width and height. Here is my program: >>> height = input ("Height:") Height:1 >>> width = input ("Width:") Width:1.618 >>> int = ((height**2) + (width**2)) >>> print int 3.617924 >>> hypotenuse * hypotenuse = int SyntaxError: can't assign to operator
I looked ahead in the lesson and could find no mention of square roots. How do I find the square root of an integer?
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