SQRT Function

The SQRT function returns a numeric value that approximates the square root of argument-1. The type of this function is numeric.

Usage

FUNCTION SQRT (argument-1)

Parameters

  1. argument-1 must be class numeric.
  2. The value of argument-1 must be zero or positive.

Returned Value

The returned value is the absolute value of the approximation of the square root of argument-1.

Parent topic: Appendix F. Intrinsic Functions