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MeaCulpa, S.C.M.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:51 pm 
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Anyone know the symbol for a root in BASIC? Just wondering. I sometimes type up my math homework and this has become a problem since we're now working with roots. I guess I could just put x^1/2 or something like that, but I wanna know if there's one for the actual root sign. And how you would make it the cube root/4th root etc.

Not sure if this is actually a tech question, really just a math one. If this needs to be in a different board I'll gladly move it.

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If by BASIC you are referring to QBASIC or Visual BAsic, The square root is sqr(). I really don't know about the other roots though. Hope this helps.
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do the parenthesis stay to the right of the affected number like sqr()2 or is it like sqr(2)?
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MeaCulpa wrote:
do the parenthesis stay to the right of the affected number like sqr()2 or is it like sqr(2)?




<=== Left ........ Right ===>

:D Couldn't pass it up, sorry.
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MeaCulpa wrote:
do the parenthesis stay to the right of the affected number like sqr()2 or is it like sqr(2)?

Here's an example if you still don't understand :

Sqr - Returns the square root of the number argument. (eg x=sqr(4) would yield x=2)
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MeaCulpa, S.C.M.
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Alright, next question, what about higher roots, like cube root, fourth root, fifth root etc.?
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Well, I found a Visual Basic function called RootN that will do it. :P

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programmin ... _Functions
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