https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148488

--- Comment #12 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Michal Svoboda from comment #11)
> - returning a real root, where one exists (i.e. also for exponents like 1/3,
> 1/7, etc.)

I agree.

> and notifying the user there are other (complex) roots, too -
> you're in the complex number domain now boy, could add to clarity and
> consistency of the arithmetics inside the sheet
> 
> - or marking all calculations potentially resulting in complex numbers as
> #ERR! with a comment - you're trying something that is outside the sheet
> range of real numbers, boy

Which specific *user problem* is this intended to solve, other than satisfying
someone's sense of beauty? I suppose that there is no one who uses Calc, who
would in practice benefit from this.

Spreadsheets are *specific* domain, with some conventions and simplifications.
We also do not try to implement physics of time, when implement time functions;
and this one looks very much trying to implement in spreadsheets something that
is more suitable for computer algebra systems.

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