Steven D'Aprano added the comment:
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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