First shot, how'd I do?

[flibberdipper]

I just made a simple square root calculator in Google Apps Script, and I want to know how I did. I did have some help from one of the  Tinkernut videos, but everyone has to start somewhere.

 

http://bit.ly/SQUAREROOT

[Tea1337]

Wow, I may have to use this to study tonight

[flibberdipper]

Wow, I may have to use this to study tonight

lol I have to use it a lot as well.

[MangoJuiceStain]

It told me that the square root of 69 is 8 something (Do you get the reference?)

[flibberdipper]

It told me that the square root of 69 is 8 something (Do you get the reference?)

Yes, I do. Why do you have to abuse and violate my poor calculator?

[UselessBread]

I just made a simple square root calculator in Google Apps Script, and I want to know how I did. I did have some help from one of the  Tinkernut videos, but everyone has to start somewhere.

 

http://bit.ly/SQUAREROOT

What method are you using to calculate? Heron's?

[technovore]

I did not know that the sqrt of 9999999999 is 99999.999995

[flibberdipper]

What method are you using to calculate? Heron's?

I don't remember. I threw this together awhile ago, before I joined LTT. Just remembered to post it.

[needmorewood]

i got NaN as an answer when putting in a negative number
uve got some ways to go

and make the answer (root symbol here) and a fraction if it is not a whole number

[Nineshadow]

I want something that can do something like :

√27=3√3

[Nineshadow]

What method are you using to calculate? Heron's?

Why would you want to calculate sqrt with Heron's?

[Blade of Grass]

i got NaN as an answer when putting in a negative number

uve got some ways to go

and make the answer (root symbol here) and a fraction if it is not a whole number

No, that's correct. Negative numbers do not have square roots.

NaN = Not a Number 

It's the standard error response code for floating point operations, outlined in IEEE 754

 

 

There are three kinds of operations that can return NaN:^[5]

• Operations with a NaN as at least one operand.
• Indeterminate forms
  • The divisions 0/0 and ±∞/±∞
  • The multiplications 0×±∞ and ±∞×0
  • The additions ∞ + (−∞), (−∞) + ∞ and equivalent subtractions
  • The standard has alternative functions for powers:
    • The standard pow function and the integer exponent pown function define 0⁰, 1^∞, and ∞⁰ as 1.
    • The powr function defines all three indeterminate forms as invalid operations and so returns NaN.

• Real operations with complex results, for example:
  • The square root of a negative number.
  • The logarithm of a negative number
  • The inverse sine or cosine of a number that is less than −1 or greater than +1.

 

Though OP: you should probably put proper error messages in (it would basically check what the response was, and if it was NaN it would display an error instead).

[Guest Philosophy]

I like it....