[Tutor] How do I do cubic roots and cubic exponents (and higher roots and exponents) in Python?

[Gregor Lingl]

Danny Yoo schrieb:

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>>How do I do cubic (and higher) roots ...
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>I think you're looking for the '**' operator.  Like addition and 
>multiplication, it can take in two numbers.
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>>>>2 ** 2
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>4
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And they also can be floating point numbers

 >>> 2 ** 0.5
1.4142135623730951
 >>> 2 **(1.0/3)
1.2599210498948732
 >>> 1.2599210498948732**3
2.0

:-)

gregor