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nth Roots in Historic Mathcad 4.0?

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AlbertG

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Greetings!

Well, I dug out my old 4.0 floppies for a quick 5-year check (still good after after 21 years); and got bumbling with the program after a quick install from my trusty CD-R backup. This software is always great fun to work with; still a touchstone of convenience and power ;o)

Well, as the title suggests, how might one go about forming/displaying an nth root in 4.0? Nothing in the helpfiles, tutorial, or any of my handbooks; and, of course, no symbolic shortcut on the left-docked toolbar...

Was this function left to a workaround, or is it just hiding somewhere in "plain sight?" Any other well-known quirks to tuck away in the notes???

Thanks and have a great day!
 
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Can't tell about the hidden treasuries of version 4, but how about x^(1/n) ?
 
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@rmix22:
Functionally, that works; but there's no symbolic output. Trying to get a functional, standard nth root representation for the document...

@Occupant:
Sadly, no; that seems to have come into play much later than this old version--

Any other ideas? This seems like a rather queer shortcoming even when one considers the age of the thing ;o)

 
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This seems like a rather queer shortcoming even when one considers the age of the thing ;o)

Well, Mathcad 1.0 probably only worked as a basic 4-function calculator! (It's hardly surprising that they added functionality with every release!)

 
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