import math math.sqrt(intNumber)
Cheers, Brett > 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? > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor