Sum of squares

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Task
Sum of squares
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

Write a program to find the sum of squares of a numeric vector. The program should work on a zero-length vector (with an answer of 0).

J

ss=: +/ @: *:

That is, sum composed with square. The verb also works on higher-ranked arrays. For example:

   ss 3 1 4 1 5 9
133
   ss $0           NB. $0 is a zero-length vector
0
   x=: 20 4 ?@$ 0  NB. a 20-by-4 table of random (0,1) numbers
   ss x
9.09516 5.19512 5.84173 6.6916

The computation can also be written as a loop. It is shown here for comparison only and is highly non-preferred compared to the version above.

ss1=: 3 : 0
 z=. 0
 for_i. i.#y do. z=. z+*:i{y end.
)

   ss1 3 1 4 1 5 9
133
   ss1 $0
0
   ss1 x
9.09516 5.19512 5.84173 6.6916

Java

Assume the numbers are in a double array called "nums".

...
double sum = 0;
for(double a : nums){
  sum+= a * a;
}
System.out.println("The sum of the squares is: " + sum);
...