Monday, April 8, 2013

Approximate sqrt(5) using Newton's Method



Newton's Method is an efficient way to approximate square roots. We choose our initial point as 2 because we know that root 5 is closer to 2 than to 3. The number crunching is done by calculator (HP50g) and the table summarizes the results.




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