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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Create a Function

Cintia Szalai
Cintia Szalai
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Posted by Cintia Szalai
Cintia Szalai
8,006 Points

Hello! Can someone help me with this, please? I really have no idea what's the issue here. Thx a lot!

So I checked on a couple of websites how to create a function in Python, but I just seem to remain clueless, I have no idea what is wrong with my code. Could somebody please tell me?

Thank you so much. Kira

squaring.py 
def square(number):
    return square
print(square)

2 Answers

Tim Rach
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Tim Rach
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Tim Rach
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Tim Rach
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,127 Points

You are returning "square", but "square" is your function name. You need to return the value pasted into the function. Aswell you need to to the math: number * number to get the square. Then you need to create a new variable named result to store the value from the function call.

def square(number):
    return number * number

result = square(3)

Should do the job

Zachary Parke
Zachary Parke
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Zachary Parke
Zachary Parke
2,796 Points

Thank you so much on this. I was reviewing these videos and got stuck when I had already answered it correctly awhile back.