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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">special_functions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">cbrt</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">cbrt</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">);</span>
<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">cbrt</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&amp;);</span>
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Returns the cubed root of x: x<sup>1/3</sup>.
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The return type of this function is computed using the <a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>result
type calculation rules</em></span></a>: the return is <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code>
when <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span> is an integer type and T otherwise.
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The final <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a> argument
is optional and can be used to control the behaviour of the function:
how it handles errors, what level of precision to use etc. Refer to the
<a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">policy documentation for more details</a>.
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Implemented using Halley iteration.
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The following graph illustrates the behaviour of cbrt:
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<span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../../graphs/cbrt.png" align="middle"></span>
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<a class="link" href="cbrt.html#math_toolkit.special.powers.cbrt.accuracy">Accuracy</a>
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For built in floating-point types <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cbrt</span></code>
should have approximately 2 epsilon accuracy.
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A mixture of spot test sanity checks, and random high precision test values
calculated using NTL::RR at 1000-bit precision.
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