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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Create a Function

Fumihito Takanami
Fumihito Takanami
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Posted by Fumihito Takanami
Fumihito Takanami
2,075 Points

what is the wrong this code?

squaring.py 
def square(number):
    result = number ** 2
    return(result)

2 Answers

Daniel Turato
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Daniel Turato
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Result is meant to be assigned outside of the function to a call of the square method. So your code would look like this:

def square(number):
    return number ** 2

result = square(3)