Given a positive integer N and a precision factor P,   it produces an output   with a maximum error P from the actual square root of N.       Example:   Given N = 5 and P = 0.001, can produce output x such that   2.235 < x < 2.237. Actual square root of 5 being 2.236.   """           def square_root(n, epsilon=0.001):   """Return square root of n, with maximum absolute error epsilon"""   guess=n/2       whileabs(guess*guess-n) >epsilon:   guess= (guess+ (n/guess)) /2       returnguess

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Given a positive integer N and a precision factor P,
  it produces an output
  with a maximum error P from the actual square root of N.
   
  Example:
  Given N = 5 and P = 0.001, can produce output x such that
  2.235 < x < 2.237. Actual square root of 5 being 2.236.
  """
   
   
  def square_root(n, epsilon=0.001):
  """Return square root of n, with maximum absolute error epsilon"""
  guess=n/2
   
  whileabs(guess*guess-n) >epsilon:
  guess= (guess+ (n/guess)) /2
   
 

returnguess

 

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