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At this point there is, in truth, little you can do; people constantly performing "rollback wars" is not healthy for the site. Multiple people have tried to edit the question to be more representative of what the question is about, including a mod, and the OP has rolled back all of these changes. For some reason, they are not open to the question being amended to be about the actual problem. The question would possibly be a candidate for being locked if this continues, so that further edits can't be made.

As such the question is effectively an XY Problem; the OP is asking about how to perform a square root in Python, because they've tried and not got the result they expect, but what they should actually be asking about is how to perform integer division in Python.

So what can be done? Well I think that the closure by Zoe as a duplicate of question about division in Python is correct; that does indeed answer the actual question the OP has. Other than that, nothing. The question is clearly still helpful, and I suspect that people that are searching for something like "How to perform a square root in Python" are going to get directed to the question; it will tell them how to do it even though the question isn't actually asking that "under the hood".

The duplicate here is good though. If someone does land on the question and wants to know about division then they have another answer they can read. Duplicates and good signposts are great for the community; especially when there are similar, but distinctly different ways of asking the same question. This means that people with different, albeit the same, question can get directed to the same resource, which answers their question. This is just another example of that.

So leave it be; yes, the title is wrong for what the problem is, but the question has proven to be helpful to others, even if the question being asked and the problem needed to be solved is different.

At this point there is, in truth, little you can do; people constantly performing "rollback wars" is not healthy for the site. Multiple people have tried to edit the question to be more representative of what the question is about, including a mod, and the OP has rolled back all of these changes. For some reason, they are not open to the question being amended to be about the actual problem. The question would possibly be a candidate for being locked if this continues, so that further edits can't be made.

As such the question is effectively an XY Problem; the OP is asking about how to perform a square root in Python, because they've tried and not got the result they expect, but what they should actually be asking about is how to perform integer division in Python.

So what can be done? Well I think that the closure by Zoe ♦ as a duplicate of question about division in Python is correct; that does indeed answer the actual question the OP has. Other than that, nothing. The question is clearly still helpful, and I suspect that people that are searching for something like "How to perform a square root in Python" are going to get directed to the question; it will tell them how to do it even though the question isn't actually asking that "under the hood".

The duplicate here is good though. If someone does land on the question and wants to know about division then they have another answer they can read. Duplicates and good signposts are great for the community; especially when there are similar, but distinctly different ways of asking the same question. This means that people with different, albeit the same, question can get directed to the same resource, which answers their question. This is just another example of that.

So leave it be; yes, the title is wrong for what the problem is, but the question has proven to be helpful to others, even if the question being asked and the problem needed to be solved is different.

At this point there is, in truth, little you can do; people constantly performing "rollback wars" is not healthy for the site. Multiple people have tried to edit the question to be more representative of what the question is about, including a mod, and the OP has rolled back all of these changes. For some reason, they are not open to the question being amended to be about the actual problem. The question would possibly be a candidate for being locked if this continues, so that further edits can't be made.

As such the question is effectively an XY Problem; the OP is asking about how to perform a square root in Python, because they've tried and not got the result they expect, but what they should actually be asking about is how to perform integer division in Python.

So what can be done? Well I think that the closure by Zoe as a duplicate of question about division in Python is correct; that does indeed answer the actual question the OP has. Other than that, nothing. The question is clearly still helpful, and I suspect that people that are searching for something like "How to perform a square root in Python" are going to get directed to the question; it will tell them how to do it even though the question isn't actually asking that "under the hood".

The duplicate here is good though. If someone does land on the question and wants to know about division then they have a another answer they can read. Duplicates and good sign posts are great for the community; especially when there are similar but distinctly different ways of asking the same question. This means that people with different, albeit the same, question can get directed to the same resource, which answers their question. This is just another example of that.

So leave it be; yes the title is wrong for what the problem is, but the question has proven to be helpful to others, even if the question being asked and the problem needed to be solved is different.

At this point there is, in truth, little you can do; people constantly performing "rollback wars" is not healthy for the site. Multiple people have tried to edit the question to be more representative of what the question is about, including a mod, and the OP has rolled back all of these changes. For some reason, they are not open to the question being amended to be about the actual problem. The question would possibly be a candidate for being locked if this continues, so that further edits can't be made.

As such the question is effectively an XY Problem; the OP is asking about how to perform a square root in Python, because they've tried and not got the result they expect, but what they should actually be asking about is how to perform integer division in Python.

So what can be done? Well I think that the closure by Zoe as a duplicate of question about division in Python is correct; that does indeed answer the actual question the OP has. Other than that, nothing. The question is clearly still helpful, and I suspect that people that are searching for something like "How to perform a square root in Python" are going to get directed to the question; it will tell them how to do it even though the question isn't actually asking that "under the hood".

The duplicate here is good though. If someone does land on the question and wants to know about division then they have another answer they can read. Duplicates and good signposts are great for the community; especially when there are similar, but distinctly different ways of asking the same question. This means that people with different, albeit the same, question can get directed to the same resource, which answers their question. This is just another example of that.

So leave it be; yes, the title is wrong for what the problem is, but the question has proven to be helpful to others, even if the question being asked and the problem needed to be solved is different.

At this point there is, in truth, little you can do; people constantly performing "rollback wars" is not healthy for the site. Multiple people have tried to edit the question to be more representative of what the question is about, including a mod, and the OP has rolled back all of these changes. For some reason, they are not open to the question being amended to be about the actual problem. The question would possibly be a candidate for being locked if this continues, so that further edits can't be made.

As such the question is effectively an XY Problem; the OP is asking about how to perform a square root in Python, because they've tried and not got the result they expect, but what they should actually be asking about is how to perform integer division in Python.

So what can be done? Well I think that the closure by Zoe as a duplicate of question about division in Python is correct; that does indeed answer the question the actual question the OP has. Other than that, nothing. The question is clearly still helpful, and I suspect that people that are searching for something like "How to perform a square root in Python" are going to get directed to the qusetion; it will tell them how to do it even though the question isn't actually asking that "under the hood".

The duplicate here is good though. If someone does land on the question and wants to know about division then they have a another answer they can read. Duplicates and good sign posts are great for the community; especially when there are similar but distinctly different ways of asking the same question. This means that people with different, albeit the same, question can get directed to the same resource, which answers their question. This is just another example of that.

So leave it be; yes the title is wrong, but the question has proven to be helpful to others, even if the question being asked and the problem needed to be solved is different.

At this point there is, in truth, little you can do; people constantly performing "rollback wars" is not healthy for the site. Multiple people have tried to edit the question to be more representative of what the question is about, including a mod, and the OP has rolled back all of these changes. For some reason, they are not open to the question being amended to be about the actual problem. The question would possibly be a candidate for being locked if this continues, so that further edits can't be made.

As such the question is effectively an XY Problem; the OP is asking about how to perform a square root in Python, because they've tried and not got the result they expect, but what they should actually be asking about is how to perform integer division in Python.

So what can be done? Well I think that the closure by Zoe as a duplicate of question about division in Python is correct; that does indeed answer the actual question the OP has. Other than that, nothing. The question is clearly still helpful, and I suspect that people that are searching for something like "How to perform a square root in Python" are going to get directed to the question; it will tell them how to do it even though the question isn't actually asking that "under the hood".

The duplicate here is good though. If someone does land on the question and wants to know about division then they have a another answer they can read. Duplicates and good sign posts are great for the community; especially when there are similar but distinctly different ways of asking the same question. This means that people with different, albeit the same, question can get directed to the same resource, which answers their question. This is just another example of that.

So leave it be; yes the title is wrong for what the problem is, but the question has proven to be helpful to others, even if the question being asked and the problem needed to be solved is different.