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Subject: Re: Whats up with sqrt?
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James W Sager Iii wrote:
> 
> For me, the function sqrt() which obviously returns a square root is
> messing up for me on moderately large numbers.
> 
> anything below 10,000 and it gives me about the right answer, but at like:
> 
> range = sqrt(300,000)
> 
> I get a 0 as a return value? 


The value of (300,000) is 0.
The value of (x,0) is 0.
The ',' is a comma operator.

The number you are looking for is
  300000
or
  3.0e5
(among a large number of equivalent representations).