Solution

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One strong form of the Hensel lemma is this: if a complete discretely valued field , a polynomial , and satisfy
then there is a unique root in the ball .
Set . Taylor expansion shows that the valuation of the error at least doubles at each step, while remains constant. Thus the corrections tend to zero geometrically, so completeness gives a limit . Continuity gives . Applying the same Taylor estimate to two roots in the stated ball proves uniqueness. This is Newton iteration over a valued field.

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