ValueError: negative number cannot be raised to a fractional power

Question

When I tried this in terminal

>>> (-3.66/26.32)**0.2

I got the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
         


        

Answer 1

Switch to Python 3 which automatically promotes the result to a complex number:

>>> (-3.66/26.32)**0.2
(0.5452512685753758+0.39614823506888347j)