How to calculate cube root or Nth root in Excel?

Excel allows you to perform a variety of calculations, from basic operations like sum and average to more advanced ones. But have you ever needed to calculate a cube root or an Nth root of numbers in your spreadsheet? This tutorial introduces easy methods to help you efficiently handle this task.

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 is calculated as shown in the screenshot below:

Tips: To get the Nth root of the numbers, you just need to raise the number to the power 1/n. For instance, to get the 4th root, change n to 4, to get the 5th root, change n to 5, and so on…, =A2^(1/4), see screenshot:

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 shown in the screenshot below: