use Perl

• Golf Swings (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  You could shave some strokes off of that:

  print $ARGV[0]**.5    ## Starting solution: 18 strokes
  
  print$ARGV[0]**.5     ## Extraneous whitespace
  print shift()**.5     ## D'OH! ()'s needed here
  print pop()**.5       ## Single-arg version: 15 strokes

  :-) ** 2
  • Re:Golf Swings (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    pop() doesn't work with the question given.
  • Re:Golf Swings (Score:2)

    by mir (51)

    die shift()**.5
    OK, it gives you some extra info about something happening line 1, but hey, you get the value anyway
    (die shift()**.5,$/ is longer)
    
    

    --
    mirod