From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Roots other than square roots in Emacs calc Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:32:55 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87vdkc2cbs.fsf@iki.fi> References: <8763cc3ugy.fsf@iki.fi> <87zl9o2ei0.fsf@iki.fi> <157d7f36-785e-42f1-85b0-055aa091f520@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <87ljl8vv01.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251211390 32195 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 14:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:43:10 +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 16:43:04 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 1MfxEl-00030l-0N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:43:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfxEk-0000lO-2s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:43:02 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18y2FOZOwWXmm7efJkJfqM5EMHDY4A0eMeYzSjOTc3E4r/6itswJt787nDuNJV6pyzZGkjsX+vHcUfJVEocSfmdQa+RxTKPd9aFQYYSBeffH0ziC1I36bOfDZ3nxex0Eu0d8WhbyKc3sjAlzY7TfIQs Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:32:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19CH7/d/r3g4qrPRjGtdVxx4Pgb40RO8oy/8V1GMV9GAg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:RrNq6Gn6W1eED4nb7URWclpLxdE= sha1:8//kDsGXGTMngay+WFzlBD5WsGM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172367 comp.emacs:98649 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:67503 Archived-At: 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 ^