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 06:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <157d7f36-785e-42f1-85b0-055aa091f520@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com> References: <8763cc3ugy.fsf@iki.fi> <87zl9o2ei0.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251218535 25664 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 16:42:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:42:15 +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 18:42:08 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 1Mfz5s-0004fx-6M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:42:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfz5r-0001UM-K8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:41:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251208498 13251 127.0.0.1 (25 Aug 2009 13:54:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a39g2000pre.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:172364 comp.emacs:98647 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:35:54 -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:67516 Archived-At: On Aug 25, 6:45=A0am, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-08-25 06:40 (-0700), Xah Lee wrote: > > > 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. > > 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