I just Echo'd Compute(8**(1/3.0)) and got 2.
The trick was (as always) to force the denominator to float, else you get 1.
On Tuesday, Sep 21, 2004, at 19:19 America/New_York, David Thompson wrote:
I was going to add the cbrt function to Compute, I really needed it today--so I did. Problem is,
Thanks Chris. One thing to note is that this would be slower than the
cbrt c function that can be hardware optimized. But it does solve
my problem. One thing I was thinking was that if a were a complex,
can you take a**(1/3.0)? What is the cube root of a complex? Its been
a long time since
I was going to add the cbrt function to Compute, I really needed it
today--so I did. Problem is, that cbrt is not available on all
platforms. Anybody know of a good place to look for an algorithm for
cbrt that could be included in OpenDX?
David
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