From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Thu Sep  1 15:45:13 1994
Subject: Cube roots
From: Edward Scott Meadows <esm at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: bug-octave
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 15:45:11 -0500

Octave is going to an undesirable branch of the cube root function.
Is there a better way to get cube roots? 

octave:30> (-1)^(1/3)
ans = 0.50000 + 0.86603i

--esm