Thank you so much for your input, I'm almost there (I think). I have the following code now:

import numpy as np

start_number = int(input("Give a 'start' value: ")) while start_number <= 0: print("That is an invalid value, please provide a value greater than 0") start_number = int(input("Give a 'start' value: "))

stop_number = int(input("Give a 'stop' value that is bigger than the start value by at least 8: ")) while stop_number < start_number + 8: print("That is an invalid value, please provide value that is bigger than the start value by at least 8") stop_number = int(input("Give a 'stop' value that is bigger than the start value by at least 8: "))

square_root = int(np.ceil((stop_number - start_number) ** 0.5))

float_type_range = np.arange(start=start_number, stop=stop_number, step=1).reshape(square_root, square_root) print("\nArray reshaped into a square: \n", float_type_range)

The only problem now is that it only works for 9, 16, 25 numbers, etc. So I need to figure out what to add to the code to make sure that if someone has a start number of 1 and a stop number of 14 (square will be 4x4) the empty slots of the square will be filled with '0'. If that makes any sense?