diff --git a/scripts/nth_root.py b/scripts/nth_root.py
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+#authors: Alvaro Aguilar & Alvaro Sanchez
+
+print "Welcome to the nth root calculator"
+
+radicand = raw_input("Enter radicand: ")
+index = raw_input("Enter index: ")
+
+nroot = float(radicand)**(1.0/float(index))
+print "result: ", nroot