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Greeks had a mechanical cube-root finder.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3615516?seq=1

(btw. are scihub links allowed on HN?)

A 1979 article on ancient catapults, includes the description of the cube-root finding device:

http://jaanmarss.planet.ee/juhendid/Kaugrelvad_Antiik-Kreeka...

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