HP-35’s x^y Why?

[rprosperi]

(11-01-2021 09:54 AM)EdS2 Wrote:  x^1/y is the yth root of x. I notice my (few) Sharps and Casios offer an xth root of y.

Of course, good point. It's typically shown the 'other' way, with the radical sign, but the swapping of the arguments made it less obvious. Curious that these models chose to print the function description this way, when nearly all other machines use the 'normal' way (though of course normal is relative).