Re: Programming question : Newton's method

It's basically the same thing that snippet of code I posted does. The
"guess" in that case was the starting number divided by 10. You can tailor
your guess for a range so that it converges in 2 iterations (see code) but 3
iterations gives more accuracy.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Bovee <jbovee@voyager.net>
To: <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: Programming question : Newton's method

> How do you make a cpu "guess" an answer?
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Received on Fri Oct 29 08:51:53 1999