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Latest revision as of 14:23, 16 December 2017
In numerical analysis, Newton's method (also known as the Newton–Raphson method) is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.
It is named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, and is one example of a root-finding algorithm.
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