How to calculate cube root or Nth root in Excel?
In Excel, you can do many calculations, such as sum, average, count…, but, have you ever tried to calculate cube root or Nth root of some selected numbers in Excel as below screenshot shown? In this tutorial, I will introduce some easy tricks for you to deal with this task.
Calculate cube root or Nth root with Exponential operator
Calculate cube root or Nth root with Exponential operator
Normally, the Exponential operator can help you to calculate the cube root or Nth root of numbers in a worksheet, please do as this:
1. Copy or enter the below formula into a blank cell:
2. And then drag the fill handle down to fill this formula to other cells, and the cube root of the specified cells are calculated as below screenshot shown:
Calculate cube root or Nth root with Power function
In Excel, you can also use the Power function to calculate the cube root or Nth root.
1. Copy or enter the following formula into a blank cell:
2. Then drag the fill handle down to fill this formula to other cells to get the cube root results, see screenshot:
Calculate cube root or Nth root with VBA code
Besides the above formulas, you can also create a VBA code to calculate the cube root or Nth root of numbers in Excel. To do this, please follow the steps below:
1. Hold down ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
VBA code: Calculate cube root of numbers
Sub cube_root()
'Updateby ExtendOffice
Dim xrng As Range
Dim xcell As Range
Dim x As Integer
Set xrng = Application.Range("A2:A9")
x = 1
For Each xcell In xrng
xcell.offset(0, x).Value = xcell ^ (1 / 3)
Next
End Sub
3. Then, press F5 key to run this code, and the cube root results are calculated next to the number column as below screenshot shown:
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