From: jzakiya <jzakiya@...>
Date: 2009-07-13T15:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Math cube root

On Jul 11, 3:58 pm, Thomas Preymesser <tho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> 2009/7/11 Zangief Ief <z4n9...@gmail.com>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Is there a cube root (ashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root)
>
> class Numeric
>   def root(arg)
>     arg**(1.0/self)
>   end
> end
>
> p 3.root 27
> p 2.root 9
>
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Correction:
class Numeric
  def root(arg);  self**(1.0/arg)  end
end