On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Bill Page wrote: >> >> Can someone explain this apparently inconsistent result? > > It's just operator precedence: > > sage: -(2.0^(1/3)) > -1.25992104989487 > sage: (-2.0)^(1/3) > 0.629960524947437 + 1.09112363597172*I >
Clear. Thanks. Why this particular root? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
