[Tutor] How to get the 2 complex cube roots of 1?
Dick Moores
rdm at rcblue.com
Thu Dec 9 11:58:34 CET 2004
My trusty $10 Casio calculator tells me that the 3 cube roots of 1 are:
1, (-.5 +0.866025403j), and (-.5 -0.866025403j), or thereabouts. Is there
a way to do this in Python?
Checking the Casio results with Python:
>>> 1**3
1
>>> (-.5 + .866025403j)**3
(0.99999999796196859+1.1766579932626087e-009j)
>>> (-.5 - .866025403j)**3
(0.99999999796196859-1.1766579932626087e-009j)
Thanks,
Dick Moores
rdm at rcblue.com
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