Generating the nth roots of a number
The builtin OOo Calc function SQRT returns the square root of it’s numerical argument. There are no
builtin functions for cube roots or higher - but you can use the exponentiation operator to derive any
order of root - as is illustrated below.
As you may notice, the parentheses are required in the example - because of the higher order of
precedence of the “^” operator over “/”. If you are not sure of the precedence rules - it is better
to add the parentheses anyway - as it makes for more legible equations.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Nice tutorial. Hope to see tutorials in basic and advance statistics.