[olug] Open Office Calc Question

[K.J. Kirwan]

Hi Joe, 

OOo uses the function  =POWER(Base;Power) 
where Base is the number you begin with and 
Power is the number you want to raise/lower 
the Base to the power of.  (Huh?) 

So to get roots, you raise to fractional powers, i.e., 
square root = raise to the 1/2 power, 
cube root = raise to the 1/3 power, etc.  

Beware of cell formatting changing the numbers, 
especially if you use fractional display format.  
It seems to be limited to one-digit denominators. 
Maybe 1/9 is the smallest legit fraction, else weirdness?  
Decimal formats seem to work fine though.  

I sent you some examples that read from cells.  
Let me know if any of this helped.  

Kim Kirwan


Joe Gulizia wrote:

>> I'm attempting to add a Cube Root and Nth Root
>> function to an OpenOffice Calc document.  I've tried
>> using OpenOffice Math with no success.  I get the Nth
>> root function but can't get it to read the cells I
>> want it to calculate.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Joe Gulizia
>> 
>> 
>> 
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