How To Calculate Cube Roots In Your Head

Here's how you do cube roots in your head! Avoid looking like Education Secretary Nicky Morgan who was stumped when asked to do a cube root: youtube.com/watch?v=x8CV0dfQMdU

Note: the starting number needs to be a perfect cube. So it's more of a magic trick: ask someone to cube a number and then you can deduce their original number quickly.

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H/T Mashable
mashable.com/2014/12/12/education-minister-math…

Arthur Benjamin is a Professor at Harvey Mudd College and well-known for feats of mental calculation. He explains the cube root algorithm in this pdf
math.hmc.edu/~benjamin/papers/Cubing.pdf

This trick is really old--here's a newspaper article from 1913 that explains the trick!
cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19130615…

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