7.2 The Transcendentals module
sqrt
G.f. method
Summary
Returns the square root of its argument.
Signature
sqrt x => y
Arguments
- x
- An instance of type
<real>. The angle, in radians.
Values
- y
- An instance of type
<float>.
Library
common-extensions
Module
transcendentals
Description
Returns the square root of x. If x is less than zero an error is signalled. The floating point precision of the result is given by the precision of x. The result is a single-float if x is an integer.
See also
See the function isqrt, page 175.