How to take nth roots?

[James Robb]

Hello,

I am using speedcrunch on ubuntu built from source, so it is the latest version as of two weeks ago (I believe).

I was wondering how I would go about taking the nth root of numbers. I see there is a square root and a cubic root function, but if I wanted to take the 5th root of something, how could I go about that?

[Helder Correia]

> if I wanted to take the 5th root of something, how could I go about that?

Hi James, one usually does: x^(1/5)
And since youŕe building from recent source, you can define your own
user function: root(r;x) = x^(1/r)

[James Robb]

Thanks! That's great!