Stuart said:
I am having problems on excel trying to get the x root y
function. I know that the sqaure root function is
written "sqrt(x)" but if I want to find the root of a
number by a number other than 2, what do I type into
excel?
Thanks.
This best asked of the number crunchers in the Excel newsgroups ... that
being said, this brings me back to basic math concepts learned a *few*
years back.
Excel's square root function is the special case of a number raised to
the power of 0.5
Excel's power function is the general case, e.g.
1.412=sqrt(2)
1.412=power(2,1/2) ... square root of 2
1.260=power(2,1/3) ... cubed root of 2
etc.
see the pattern?
A terrific reference for this sort of thing for your bookshelf would be
the CRC Standard Math Tables and Formulae
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t..._books_3/102-2291095-3779307?v=glance&s=books