Printing out a variable in while loop?

In my document, Im pretty sure my code is right, I just dont get why my estimated and actual cube root values come out the same. I dont think theyre supposed to be that way, and I have no idea what variable to print out for the actual cube root fprintf statement. Would i need an equation for an actual cube root, although the directions dont say anything about that. Right now, I am just greatly confused, the help i have received so far isnt clicking for me.

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Nick - your answers come out the same since you are writing out the same variable for each print statement:

 fprintf('The actual cube root is %0.3f\n', Estimate)
 fprintf('The estimate of the cube root is %0.3f\n', Estimate)

The actual cube root of the input number would be

 fprintf('The actual cube root is %0.3f\n', x^(1/3));

where x is the number that you are trying to compute the cube root of. For example,

 x = input('Please enter a number:');

will allow the user to enter a number that he or she wishes to find the cube root of. Note that in your code you do

 CubeRoot=input('Please enter a number:')

The above line is misleading since the number entered by the user is not the cube root but is the number that they wish to find the cube root of.

[Nick Haufler]

Geoff- Thank You VERY MUCH! I finally understand it. I do see what you were saying about my input statements. I really appreciate your help. Thanks again!

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

As John stated two days ago, DON'T KEEP POSTING THE SAME QUESTION REPEATEDLY!

Walter TOLD you what was wrong in another post from two days ago. Reread what he wrote.