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Interesting. It seems to be taking the square root of MAXINT (2**32 on my platform), with some floating-point storage error in the answer.

While lacking strong typing might be detrimental in practical programs, it sure is fun to play with sometimes :)

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Re^2: sqrt string?
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 12, 2005 at 16:14 UTC
    You sure its not taking the sqrt of the memory address of the array? 
    $a = $b = ["abc",123];
print "\$a is $a\n";
$a =~ s/\D+//;
print "The decimal value of the address of the array  is ",hex($a);
print "\n";
print sqrt(hex($a)),"==", sqrt($b),"\n";

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      Ahh, yes. That is it.

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