I can't rely on the user. I want to make sure I get a float in it, so how do I do that?

我想确保这儿我得到的是一个浮点数,我该怎么做呢？

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Now that I've written sqrt, I can just use it anywhere I want in the code. You've got to rely on the fact that I wrote it correctly, but you can basically suppress the details of how it's used.

就是忽略细节,既然我已经编写了sqrt函数,我可以在代码的任何地方使用它，你完全可以依靠,我已经编写的这个函数。

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