SQR

Square Root

This numeric function returns the square root of a positive number.

Syntax

SQR (numeric-value [,ERR=line-ref|,ERC=error-code])

numeric-value: is any positive number.
line-ref: is the program line number or label to branch to if an error is produced by this function.
error-code: is a programmer-defined error code. Valid values are positive or negative whole numbers.

If an attempt is made to use a negative numeric-value, an ERR=40 results.

SQR (25)

The result is 5.

LET Y = SQR (A*3+B)

If A=2 and B=7, Y is assigned the value 3.61.

SQR (.40)

The result is 0.63.

These examples assume PRECISION 2.