Re: Programming question : Newton's method

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jeff Bovee wrote:

> How do you make a cpu "guess" an answer?
>

        Simple Here's the complicated code segment for Newton-Raphson
Iteration (with some small simplifications :) ):

        /* Guess The Answer to be 0 */

        x = 0;

        /* Do Newton Raphson Iteration */

        x = do_newton_raphson_iteration(x, f);

Joe

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Received on Fri Oct 29 09:14:41 1999