You can do a "float" function on it so it will print it as a real number as against a rational number (float 1/2) = 0.5 At 08:09 PM 9/3/2001 -0700, you wrote: >hey , > >for the cube root problem, i think i got the answer right. >but it prints it as "126475647/63237824" which if u do calculate >turns out to be 2. which is the right answer. >what should i do?