On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Bill Page <bill.p...@newsynthesis.org> wrote: > > Can someone explain this apparently inconsistent result?
It's just operator precedence: sage: -(2.0^(1/3)) -1.25992104989487 sage: (-2.0)^(1/3) 0.629960524947437 + 1.09112363597172*I --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---