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

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