Learn the Bisection Method by Finding the Square Root of a Number - Step 11

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Tell us what’s happening:

I literally have no clue of what is being asked of me here. The lightbulb is telling me to create a ‘for’ loop to iterate over ‘range(max_iterations)’. Use ‘_’ as the loop variable. I have already did it.

“for ‘_’ in range(max_iterations):”

I also did a lot of iterations of that code so you could say i’m at my max_iterations lmao so i decided to get help.

This really stumped me for some reason, i think the lightbulb and direction are not really explained well.

Your code so far

def square_root_bisection(square_target, tolerance=1e-7, max_iterations=100):
    if square_target < 0:
        raise ValueError('Square root of negative number is not defined in real numbers')
    if square_target == 1:
        root = 1
        print(f'The square root of {square_target} is 1')
    elif square_target == 0:
        root = 0
        print(f'The square root of {square_target} is 0')

    else:
        low = 0
        high = max(1, square_target)
        root = None

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    for _ in range(max_iterations):
        pass
         

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Learn the Bisection Method by Finding the Square Root of a Number - Step 11

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To anyone having this problem, the ‘for _ in range(max_iterations):’ is needed to be inside else. So the solution is to just literally press tab.

The instructions have a huge body of text about range which blocked the ever so important instruction at the top in which it tells you, it needs to be inside else.