From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Roots other than square roots in Emacs calc
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:54:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <157d7f36-785e-42f1-85b0-055aa091f520@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zl9o2ei0.fsf@iki.fi
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-25 13:15 Roots other than square roots in Emacs calc Teemu Likonen
2009-08-25 13:40 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-25 13:45 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-25 13:54 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-08-25 14:16 ` Jay Belanger
2009-08-25 14:32 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-25 15:04 ` Jay Belanger
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