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Created February 13, 2013 11:33
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Newton-Raphson ( for root finding)
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newton_raphson_sample
epsilon = 0.01
y = 1234567.0
guess = y/2.0
while abs(guess*guess - y) >= epsilon:
guess = guess - (((guess**2) - y)/(2*guess))
print(guess)
print('Square root of ' + str(y) + ' is about ' + str(guess))
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