Talk:Cube root

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[edit] Infinitely nested cube roots

What is the point of this section ? This is an encyclopedia, not a bunch of random stuff from high school math problems. I think this part should be deleted.

[edit] Related image

User:Shen has replaced the old picture with a newer one (that is probably better). Ah well... I don't like images (especially ones I made) to disappear into oblivion. :-) — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 17:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Aha, yeah... Sorry about the confusion. I'll get round to telling people if I do it again (really) Shen 21:29, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Uh... no need to be sorry. :-D If it's a better picture, it's a better picture. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 21:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Both the new and the old image suffer from the same problem, the numbers on the axes are too small. Would be nice if the picture is redrawn with biggerfont sizes. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:29, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, part of the problem is the resizing of the plots. — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 03:36, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Good point. The first picture does not scale the axes, and is more natural. Unless the new picture fixes that and the font sizes, I would suggest using the old one. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I gave it some bigger fonts (increased the size of everything by 2). It should look a lot nicer! Shen 21:11, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, looks good! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:23, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Cube Root and Root-Solving History

It is certainly disturbing to realize that the extremely simple arithmetical method for approximating the Cube Root (and Nth. root) shown at: Arithmetical High-Order root-solving methods do not appear in any book on numbers since ancient times up to now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.109.112.12 (talk • contribs).

How does this have any relevance to the article at hand? — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 02:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)