Quote:
Originally Posted by Auric__
Punjabi Mathematician wrote:
What's the mathematical formula behind the Excel Power Function?
POWER(number, power)
How do you determine the value of (2)^(0.5) or POWER(2, 0.5)
Are you asking how one calculates roots?
I don't know the formula Excel uses, but Rosetta Code has a page covering
this topic:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Nth_root
Wikipedia also has a page discussing it:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_root_algorithm |
Newtons' Method!
Iteration!
No wonder,
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