John Smith <someone at microsoft.com> wrote: > How does one take a root higher than square roots in Python? Can I take the > cube root of a number? Same way you would in almost any language. The Nth root of a number is the number to the 1/Nth power, so: import math math.pow (x, 1.0/y) or, if you wanted to be somewhat silly, math.pow (x, math.pow (y, -1)) :-)