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Author steven.daprano
Recipients belopolsky, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, steven.daprano, tim.peters
Date 2016-06-25.11:36:36
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:02:09PM +0000, Tim Peters wrote:
> Note that the very popular TI graphics calculators have had a distinct 
> nth-root function at least since the TI-83.  It's a minor convenience 
> there.

Likewise HP calculators ("xroot") and at least one Javascript library. 
But it does seem to be uncommon among programming languages. Which 
surprises me, because it is not just a convenience, it can be more 
accurate than using the generic pow(x, 1/n).

But seeing as there isn't that much interest, I'll stick with a private 
function in statistics.
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