Timeline for Approximate My Squares

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Jun 17, 2020 at 9:04	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
Oct 31, 2017 at 12:14	history	edited	Robert Benson	CC BY-SA 3.0	Still more golfing
Oct 31, 2017 at 12:10	comment	added	Robert Benson		The comment is fine. I knew about `printf` but had been using `sprintf` recently which does require the parentheses. I didn't think about simplifying the expression. I like the "\n" for the multiple inputs, but you're right, 2 bytes is 2 bytes.
Oct 31, 2017 at 12:07	history	edited	Robert Benson	CC BY-SA 3.0	More golfing
Oct 31, 2017 at 0:18	comment	added	Cabbie407		You're welcome. Some other things: you don't need the `\n` to get the output, the printf in awk doesn't need parentheses and the formula can be shortened to `s/2+$1/s/2`, which results in `{s=int($1^.5);printf"%.2f",s/2+$1/s/2}`. Sorry if this comment seems rude.
Oct 30, 2017 at 13:54	history	edited	Robert Benson	CC BY-SA 3.0	Fixing TIO links
Oct 30, 2017 at 13:52	comment	added	Robert Benson		Thanks @Cabbie407 don't know why I didn't think of that.
Oct 29, 2017 at 22:42	comment	added	Cabbie407		instead of `sqrt($1)` you can use `$1^.5`
Oct 28, 2017 at 13:19	comment	added	Robert Benson		'AWK' puns are fun :)
Oct 27, 2017 at 19:17	comment	added	Stan Strum		well you could say this is AWKward. I’ll show myself out. edit: originally I planned for the question to shun using sqrt, but there’s too many answers and I’ll get tort if I change it so my original idea works.
Oct 27, 2017 at 16:33	history	answered	Robert Benson	CC BY-SA 3.0