Re: Calculating square root in ISQL

Posted in 1994

Jason Restad — 22 Jul 1994 21:25:43 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Bonnie Weller (weller@zorro.cecer.army.mil) wrote: : Hello : I have SE 5.01 ISQL 4.11. I do NOT have 4GL (which I understand can : do square roots.) : I need to compute the following into an sql statement. : _____________________ : \\ | 2 2 : \\| (x1-x2) + (y1-y2) < r1+r2 : I am not sure how to do the square root part of the equation as isql does : not have this capability. try comparing the square of the values: test for : 2 2 2 (x1-x2) + (y1-y2) < (r1+r2) I sent this before, but I am not sure my news reader is acting correctlly.