Write a program in Python with a function squareRoot(x, epsilon) that uses bisection search to return a number y that is close enough to the square root of x, so that abs(y**2 - x) < epsilon.

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Write a program in Python with a function squareRoot(x, epsilon) that uses bisection search to return a number y that is close enough to the square root of x, so that abs(y**2 - x) < epsilon. 

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