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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / June 2004Square Root
How does one calculate the Nth square root of X. Is there a function? Anyone has formula to acomplish this? Thanks for your help. Regards Sadik Hi Sadik try =POWER(value,1/n) or =value^(1/n) Frank > How does one calculate the Nth square root of X. Is there > a function? Anyone has formula to acomplish this? Thanks > for your help. > > Regards > Sadik Frank, Thanks a lot. Its so easy when you know it. Thanks. Regards Sadik >-----Original Message----- >Hi Sadik [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >. Sadik, Not to be picky, but for what it's worth, you're asking for the "nth root of x," not square root.  SignatureEarl Kiosterud mvpearl omitthisword at verizon period net ------------------------------------------- > Frank, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > >. > Not to be picky, but for what it's worth, you're asking for the "nth > root of x," not square root. It's the notation that's confusing. Square root is written like this: _______ / '\ / 25 \/ but the nth root is written like this: _______ n / '\ / 25 \/ It's easy to look at that change and think "this is the same thing as square root plus an n, so it's the nth square root" The problem is that _______ / '\ / 25 \/ is a shorthand notation for _______ 2 / '\ / 25 \/ and terminology is weird that we say the "square root" instead of "second root". SignatureMy email address has an extra @ (spell it out) and an extra invalid. Please remove them if you are not a spammer or list broker and want to reply. Jonathan, I agree. In the absence of a number, it's presumed to be 2. As an aside, you should work in audio, where presumptions lead people quite astray. My favorite is "RMS Power," a fairly misunderstood and essentially meaningless term. It even has to do with squares and square roots. SignatureEarl Kiosterud mvpearl omitthisword at verizon period net ------------------------------------------- > > Not to be picky, but for what it's worth, you're asking for the "nth > > root of x," not square root. [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > and terminology is weird that we say the "square root" instead of "second > root". Or try explaining the impact of harmonics on three phase power systems. > Jonathan, > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > and terminology is weird that we say the "square root" instead of "second > > root". And since we have gone to power systems explain the use of the square root of -1 Or try explaining the impact of harmonics on three phase power systems. "Earl Kiosterud" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:uVzD1wZ8DHA.1816@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > Jonathan, > [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > and terminology is weird that we say the "square root" instead of "second > > root". |
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