RosettaCodeData/Task/Nth-root/Liberty-BASIC/nth-root.basic

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print "First estimate is: ", using( "#.###############", NthRoot( 125, 5642, 0.001 ));
print " ... and better is: ", using( "#.###############", NthRoot( 125, 5642, 0.00001))
print "125'th root of 5642 by LB's exponentiation operator is "; using( "#.###############", 5642^(1 /125))
print "27^(1 / 3)", using( "#.###############", NthRoot( 3, 27, 0.00001))
print "2^(1 / 2)", using( "#.###############", NthRoot( 2, 2, 0.00001))
print "1024^(1 /10)", using( "#.###############", NthRoot( 10, 1024, 0.00001))
wait
function NthRoot( n, A, p)
x( 0) =A
x( 1) =A /n
while abs( x( 1) -x( 0)) >p
x( 0) =x( 1)
x( 1) =( ( n -1.0) *x( 1) +A /x( 1)^( n -1.0)) /n
wend
NthRoot =x( 1)
end function
end