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sqrt

Calculate the square root.

Compatibility:

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32


Prototype:
#include <math.h>

double sqrt(double x);
float sqrtf(float x);
long double sqrtl(long double x);
Parameters:

Parameters for this function are:

x  
float, double or long double  
value to compute  

Return:

sqrt() returns the square root of x.

Remarks:

A domain error occurs if the argument is a negative value.

See Also:

"Inlined Intrinsics Option"

"pow"

sqrt() example:
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	double x = 64.0;
	
	printf("The square root of %f is %f.\n", x, sqrt(x));

	return 0;
}

Output:
The square root of 64.000000 is 8.000000.


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