[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic nth_root()

2011-11-23 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:41:56 -0800 (PST) kcrisman wrote: > > > > I don't think it exists,  The symbolic functionality in Sage is > > > supposed to make it "easy" for users to define a new symbolic > > > function at runtime, including how that function gets simplified. > > >  This is supposed to

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolic nth_root()

2011-11-20 Thread Rob Beezer
On Nov 20, 5:52 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > So I think the question still remains: is there something like a > symbolic nth_root() function?  Or, alternatively, a way of evaluating > the symbolic expression x^(1/3) yielding only real numbers with real > input?  Such functionality would certainly b