#12935: Add another cube root plotting example to plot doc
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       Reporter:  kcrisman       |         Owner:  mvngu   
           Type:  enhancement    |        Status:  new     
       Priority:  minor          |     Milestone:  sage-5.1
      Component:  documentation  |    Resolution:          
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Comment (by kcrisman):

 > Can I suggest `plot(sign(x)*(x*sign(x))^(1/3), (x,-4,4))` as the code to
 add?
 That's what I attempted to suggest above.

 The point of adding this example was that a number of users (including the
 originator of this example) thought that students wouldn't know what
 lambda functions were - not to mention the dot notation.  I guess I view
 them as equally complicated, though the `sign` solution has the advantage
 that most of use probably implicitly use this when discussing the absolute
 value function as a piecewise linear function and not just "make it
 positive" early in any course where cube roots would be plotted.

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