How to find cube root using while loop?
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Nick Haufler
on 7 Oct 2015
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 4 Jan 2022
In the attached document, how would you write a while loop to display the cube root as it asks. Im more familiar with for loops, so is the while loop the same way? Im just confused how to output the cube root. Im starting off with input statements; not sure if im on the right track?
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Walter Roberson
on 4 Jan 2022
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 4 Jan 2022
There is no cube root command in MATLAB.
x.^(1/3)
nthroot(x, 3) %x must be real
pow(x, 1/3)
exp(log(x)/3)
For negative x, all of the above are identical except for nthroot. For positive x, the mathematical model for all of them is as-if exp of log had been used, but MATLAB is allowed to detect that an integer root is being taken and potentially use an alternative code path.
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Walter Roberson
on 7 Oct 2015
for K = 1 : 5
something
end
is nearly the same thing as
K = 1
while K <= 5
something
K = K + 1;
end
But sometimes you do not need to count. For example,
err = inf;
while abs(err) > 0.1
some calculation
err = something
end
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