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Eugen Paris
1,064 Pointscreate a function called square
import math
def square(number):
return number square
Jamison Habermann
11,691 PointsThe challenge is asking you to create the function yourself, not use the math import.
You must create a function that creates a square of whatever number is passed in as an argument. A square of a number is the number multiplied by itself. Hope this helps.
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 PointsYou are on the right path. There are a few simple ways to "square a number" in Python
# Let's set number to 5
# to represent the argument passed to the function
>>> number = 5
>>> number * number # A number times itself
25
>>> number ** 2 # A number raised to the power 2
25
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!
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17,062 Points<noob />
17,062 PointsHi! in this challange u being asked to create a function named square that take a paramater, and return the square of the parameter u do it by multiply the parameter by it self. gl