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Re: Having trouble with 92...

What ROM version do you have, and what are your 'Pretty print' and
Exact/Approx mode settings?


I have ROM version 1.7 and get -3 with Prettyprint on and exact/approx on Auto.




At 18:07 9/18/96 GMT, Xavier Scott wrote:
>When I put in    (-27)^(1/3)     and press enter,  I get the following
>answer:
>
>  3/2+3*sqrt(3)/2*i.
>
>What's with that?  I know the answer is supposed to be -3.  Can anyone tell
>me whay it is doing this?
>
>
>                Concerned Calculus Student->  Scott
Johnson<html><head></head><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><font size=2
color="#000000" face="Geneva">When I put in &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;(-27)^(1/3)
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and press enter, &amp;nbsp;I get the following answer:
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;<br><br> &amp;nbsp;3/2+3*sqrt(3)/2*i.<br><br>What's with that?
&amp;nbsp;I know the answer is supposed to be -3. &amp;nbsp;Can anyone tell me whay
it is doing this?<br><br><br>&amp;#009;&amp;#009;Concerned Calculus Student-&amp;gt;
&amp;nbsp;Scott Johnson</p>
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