Square Root

[Khavoerm]

Hello,
For my project I created a COperation class. One of the function of COperation is SQR which should return the square root. Whatever the number I try, it gave me 1. What's wrong with my code?

double COperation::SQR(double Number)
{
    return pow(Number,(1/2));
} 

[nabeels786]

ur multiplying it by a half

[Wynd]

If you are gonna use cmath, just use the sqrt function.

double COperation::SQR(double Number)
{
    return sqrt(Number);
} 

[CornedBee]

1/2 is an integer division, you get an integer as result. Just like you do in elementary school:
1 divided by 2 is 0, 1 remains.
So you actually do
pow(Number, 0);
which is, of course, 1.
You COULD do
pow(Number, (1.0/2.0);
which does a floating point division, but this is BAD, because you force the cpu to do an operation you easily could do in your head (unless the compiler optimizes it away), so do either
pow(Number, 0.5);
or
sqrt(Number);