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 16:45:59 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87zl9o2ei0.fsf@iki.fi> References: <8763cc3ugy.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251211266 31746 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 14:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:41:06 +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 16:40:59 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 1MfxCf-00029x-BV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:40:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfxCe-0005xL-NK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:40:52 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/FGa89lhL0uuiz8Qksyp14VWNRKc+1IJFQ1tCzzhML8meIkcDDYs0Rt7/TPQnRIRX8SMifuPM3QP8fEPNdze8O5/31VKxkUUvuXBTKAA3WIOwsFon6LGzLDHIvrJpZ5GlFdLnUquRFd4yTrgqTc6QA Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:46:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+AqHOihQNspWMZq1zZf0X+W38BpA9Npc4btQIbgtj3RA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:qohda4A/cYM6oWhjWWZZ/0LAmfs= sha1:tldSUN8G5GWWZ0UpMozMJMi7cs4= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172363 comp.emacs:98646 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:67501 Archived-At: 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. :-)