%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 8-7-4 on page 505.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{111.0pt}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{amsmath}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\[
   \sqrt[\beta]{k} \qquad
   \sqrt[\leftroot{2}\uproot{4} \beta]{k} \qquad
   \sqrt[\leftroot{1}\uproot{3} \beta]{k}
\]
\end{document}