Hensel's lemma the value of "c" mod 27: if "c" ≡ 1 mod 27 then use "a" = 1, if "c" ≡ 10 mod 27 then use "a" = 4 (since 4 is a root of "f"("x") mod 27), and if "c" ≡ 19 mod 27 then use "a" = 7. (It is not true that every "c" ≡ 1 mod 3 is a 3-adic cube, e.g., 4 is not a 3-adic cube since it is not a cube mod 9.) In a similar way, after some preliminary work Hensel's lemma can be used to show that for any "odd" prime number
Cube root this required the construction, now known to be impossible, of the length . A method for extracting cube roots appears in "The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art", a Chinese mathematical text compiled around the 2nd century BCE and commented on by Liu Hui in the 3rd century CE. The Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria devised a method for calculating cube roots in the 1st century CE. His formula is again mentioned by Eutokios in a commentary on Archimedes. In 499 CE Aryabhata, a mathematician-astronomer from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy, gave a method for finding