Re: Cube root

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ooooh, good point Adam.  I totally missed that.  It seems, however, that
other people have come up with the very simple solution of:

root = Number ** ( 1/3 )

I have no idea why this works.  I musta been sleeping that day in math class.
A lot of people knew it, though, which makes me feel kinda... umm... stupid.

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Ray, Adam" wrote:
> 
> The statement below is partially incorrect. You can return the cube root of
> a negative number, for example the cube root of -8 is -2 (-2 * -2 * -2 =
> -8). You can't, however return the square (or any other even number) root of
> a negative number.
> 
> <snip>
> If Number < 0 return -1 error (can't return root of negative number)
> </snip>
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