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[Georgios Samaras <>]

It doesn't make sense to compute the square root of an exact rational number, because the exact rational type won't be able to represent the result? If you only want something approximate, feel free to convert to double and then compute the square root of that.

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Marc Glisse

True. I had seen this when reading in the site (http://www.cgal.org/philosophy.html, at section " What does it mean for you", at 3rd paragraph).

However, I wanted to ask someone who knew.

Thanks Mr. Glisse,

George Samaras