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Peer reviewedMathews, John H. – AMATYC Review, 1989
Describes Newton's method to locate roots of an equation using the Newton-Raphson iteration formula. Develops an adaptive method overcoming limitations of the iteration method. Provides the algorithm and computer program of the adaptive Newton-Raphson method. (YP)
Descriptors: Algorithms, College Mathematics, Computation, Equations (Mathematics)
