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How to calculate (-3)^(1/3) in real numbers #217

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Because there is no symbolic representation you can try the numeric mode for Surd or CubeRoot:

   Surd(-3, 3) // N
  CubeRoot(-3) // N

or you can try NSolve to also get the complex values:

  NSolve(x^3 + 3 == 0, x)

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