finding cube root in C++?

Question

Strange things happen when i try to find the cube root of a number.

The following code returns me undefined. In cmd : -1.#IND

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Answer 1

C++11 has the cbrt function (see for example http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/cbrt) so you can write something like

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   const double arg = 20.0*(-3.2) + 30.0;
   std::cout << cbrt(arg) << "\n";
   std::cout << cbrt(-arg) << "\n";
   return 0;
}

I do not have access to the C++ standard so I do not know how the negative argument is handled... a test on ideone http://ideone.com/bFlXYs seems to confirm that C++ (gcc-4.8.1) extends the cube root with this rule cbrt(x)=-cbrt(-x) when x<0; for this extension you can see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubeRoot.html