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: • Video
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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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
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This trick is really old--here's a newspaper article from 1913 that explains the trick!
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