From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Roots other than square roots in Emacs calc
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:04:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxbgvssq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vdkc2cbs.fsf@iki.fi
Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
> On 2009-08-25 09:16 (-0500), Jay Belanger wrote:
>
>> The ^ command gives powers; with the inverse flag, I ^, you will get
>> the roots. So, for example, to find the cube root of 27, you can enter
>> 27 RET 3 I ^
>
> Interesting. So, these are the basic options:
>
> 27 RET 3 & ^
> 27 RET 3 I ^
Yes. If you use the first option, you'd want to be in fraction mode so
you are taking 27 to the 1/3 power and not the 0.333333333333 power.
The second option doesn't depend on the mode.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 15:04 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
2009-08-25 14:16 ` Jay Belanger
2009-08-25 14:32 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-25 15:04 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
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