On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 at 10:29AM -0700, Martin Flashman wrote:
> On naming the function: eventually a shorter name would be helpful if this
> is to become a core real function:
> perhaps r_rootn(x,n) or simply rootn(x,n).
I would argue that the longer name is more helpful. With "real_nth_root"
it'
Norbert's solution is short but unfortunately for nth_real_root(4,2)
gives a result of -2 instead of what the TC MITS expected result of 2.
One slight modification handles that issue to give results that match these
expectations- Unfortunately- this function doesn't seem to plot!???:
def nth_r