What is Math.sqrt() in Ruby?

The sqrt() function in Ruby returns the square root of a non-negative number.

Figure 1 shows the mathematical representation of the sqrt() function.

Figure 1: Mathematical representation of the sqrt() function

Syntax

sqrt(number)

Parameter

sqrt() requires a non-negative number as a parameter. If the number is negative, a DomainError will be thrown.

Return value

sqrt() returns the square root of the number sent as a parameter.

Example

print "sqrt(4):", Math.sqrt(4), "\n"
print "sqrt(0):", Math.sqrt(0), "\n"
print "sqrt(25):", Math.sqrt(25), "\n"
print "sqrt(4.5):", Math.sqrt(4.5), "\n"

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