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Tyler Lundgren
6,826 PointsIn the body of my function, how do I return a squared number?
def square (number): return number * 2....?????
def square (number):
return number * 2 !=

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,739 Pointsnoob developer needs to post answers not comments
3 Answers

<noob />
17,047 PointsHi!, your really close, the right code is this:
def square(number):
return number*number
like u see first, i created a function named square and pass a paramater named number. to return a squared number *** YOU NEED TO MULTIPLY THE NUMBER BY HIM SELF*** and not by 2, and because of that u need to retun number*number.
if that answer has halped mark as best answer in order to close this article :D

Mark Nembhard
1,387 PointsPlease help. I think this is correct but it keeps coming up error on line 4 "" end of file. See below. def square(number): square = number*number return square number = int(input("input the number you would like squared")) result = square(number) Print (" your number squared is {}".format(result))

<noob />
17,047 PointsMark Nembhard the correct answer is above

Mark Nembhard
1,387 PointsIv'e done that. the code is returning an error still
<noob />
17,047 Points<noob />
17,047 PointsHi!, your really close, the right code is this:
like u see first, i created a function named square and pass a paramater named number. to return a squared number *** YOU NEED TO MULTIPLY THE NUMBER BY HIM SELF*** and not by 2, and because of that u need to retun number*number.
if that answer has halped mark as best answer in order to close this article :D