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Return the square root of the specified `x`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdldfp_decimalutil.h>`

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== Description

Special value handling: * If `x` is NaN, NaN is returned. * If `x` is less than ‐0, NaN is returned and the value of the macro `EDOM` is stored into `errno`. * If `x` is +/‐infinity or +/‐0, it is returned unmodified.


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