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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2014 / Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability / 5 / b / iii / Solution

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Subtract the previous iterate in Newton's method:
xn​−xn−1​=2xn−1​a−xn−12​​<0if xn−1​>a​.​
(1)
The denominator is positive and the numerator is negative. If xn−1​=a​, the difference is zero and all subsequent iterates equal the root.

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