Thread: Newton method to find roots

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    Can you plese help me , Ive been reading up on this for more than 2 hours now and I still cant mak a working program

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    Your problem is still this:
    Quote Originally Posted by iMalc View Post
    Well that fixes one problem, but it's still hard-coded to find the sqrt of 2 instead of 'number'.
    Even if you don't know exactly what I'm saying, it isn't hard to guess.
    Consider running for a few more iterations than 10 though perhaps.
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    Sorry, I was wrong, I was the one who made the sign mistake in deriving the correct formula from Newton's method. iMalc is correct, there is one mistake in your formula, but it's what he said, not the sign.

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