Re: Math functions - shareware

[Francis Lapeyre <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James W. Kilgore wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> In the spirit of the "shareware" discussion earlier, would one of you
> with access to a C compler offer a callable program to compute
> third/fourh root of a number.
> 
> Or if someone knows how this can be accomplished in RPG/400 let us in on
> it.
> 
> Specifically we need to go beyond square root to 2.25 2.5 2.75 3.0 3.25
> 3.5 3.74 and 4.0
> 
> TIA
> ===================================================
> James W. Kilgore   | Progressive Data Systems, Inc.
> President          | 311 31st Ave SE
> (206) 848-2567     | Puyallup, Washington 98374 USA
> qappdsn@ibm.net    | http://www.ultimate.org/PDS

James: 

If you have V3R1, you can use the EVAL statement in RPGIV to come up the
nth root of any number. EVAL has exponetiation.  The yth root of n is (n
** (1/y)). 

HTH.

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