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Please note that the recommended version of Scilab is 6.1.0. This page might be outdated.
See the recommended documentation of this function

sqroot(X)

X=rand(5,2)*rand(2,5);X=X*X';
W=sqroot(X)
norm(W*W'-X,1)

X=rand(5,2)+%i*rand(5,2);X=X*X';
W=sqroot(X)
norm(W*W'-X,1)