From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Roots other than square roots in Emacs calc Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <8763cc3ugy.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251218467 25418 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 16:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:41:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 18:41:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mfz4s-0004GX-RT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfz4s-0008Vv-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:40:58 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251207657 15858 127.0.0.1 (25 Aug 2009 13:40:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172362 comp.emacs:98645 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:35:23 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67515 Archived-At: On Aug 25, 6:15 am, Teemu Likonen 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. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84