Numerical Methods for Engineers
Numerical Methods for Engineers
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ISBN: 9780073397924
Author: Steven C. Chapra Dr., Raymond P. Canale
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 15P

The “divide and average” method, an old-time method for approximating the square root of any positive number a , can be formulated as

x = x + a / x 2

Prove that this is equivalent to the Newton-Raphson algorithm.

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