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 of a number "x" are the numbers "y" which satisfy the equation For any real number "x", there is "one" real number "y" such that "y" = "x". The cube function is increasing, so does not give the same result for two different inputs, plus it covers all real numbers. In other words, it is a bijection, or one-to-one. Then we can define an inverse function that is also one-to-one. For real numbers, we can define a unique cube root of all real numbers. If this definition is used, the cube root of a negative number is a negative number.