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Re: Roots other than square roots in Emacs calc
From: |
Xah Lee |
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Re: Roots other than square roots in Emacs calc |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:54:57 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Aug 25, 6:45 am, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-08-25 06:40 (-0700), Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > On Aug 25, 6:15 am, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> >> Emacs calc can calculate square roots with "Q" command or with
> >> sqrt(x). How about other roots? How to get cube root, for example?
>
> > raise it to 1/3 for cube root.
>
> Ah, of course, stupid me.
>
> But hey, I teach Finnish, not math. :-)
few years ago i asked for how to do square root in comp.emacs and was
having a fit to boot, and they told me raise it to 1/2.
:D
Xah