[bronxbomber92]

If for some reason you're having problems beyond #included <cmath> (in which case, you should probably fix anyways :-P) here's a nice implementation of sqrt for floats taken from quake:

float SquareRootFloat(float number) {
    long i;
    float x, y;
    const float f = 1.5F;

    x = number * 0.5F;
    y  = number;
    i  = * ( long * ) &y;
    i  = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
    y  = * ( float * ) &i;
    y  = y * ( f - ( x * y * y ) );
    y  = y * ( f - ( x * y * y ) );
    return number * y;
}