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From: aash@ms.uky.edu (aash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 8^(1/3)
Message-ID: <11821@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 89 16:26:21 GMT
References: <6226@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: aash@ms.uky.edu (aash)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <6226@cs.Buffalo.EDU> sher@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Sher) writes:
>Does anyone know how this was implemented in the old Applesoft Basic?
>(8 ^ (1/3)

I was always under the impression that they
used logs to calculate this kind of thing, 
but of course I could be wrong.
Call it an educated guess?

aash


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