🔒 Help with a question about approximating square roots??

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@safe imp

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[safe imp]

oh wait

mb

[crude cove]

!raw

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[crude cove]

...

[safe imp]

  x = int(x)
  
  x = x ** 0.5
  y = (x+1)/2

  ySqr = y ** 2

  print (x)
  print (ySqr)

  while (ySqr > x + 0.001) or (ySqr < x + 0.001):
    if ySqr <= (x + 0.001) or ySqr <= (x + 0.001):
      print (y)
      return (y)

  else:
    y == (y+x/y)/2
    ySqr = y ** 2
    print (ySqr)

gang = input("")
mySqrt(gang)```

I get why the while loop doesn't work, I just can't think of a way that would..

[crude cove]

why are you doing x = x ** 0.5?

it already calculates the square root

[safe imp]

oooh

mb I've been working on this for a bit and I was using to for checking

But I forgot to get rid of it

[safe imp]

Oh I figured it out, how do I delete this post???

!close

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