[Coco] A Basic09 Query

[Wayne Campbell]

PI isn't really a function. It's more of a defined constant. SQ and SQR
both compute the square root of a number. If I recall correctly, one
operates on REAL numbers, the other on INTEGER numbers, but I may be
misremembering there.

Wayne

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 1:41 PM Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Nothing important, just a couple simple questions.
>
> Why would you need a function to return a constant, Pi?
>
> And further, why would you need a function to compute a square?
>
> Is that not unneeded complexity?
>
> bill
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