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The square root of real numbers

This section briefly reviews some well known square root iterative algorithms, and derives the Newton-Raphson and Secant methods. It also shows that Muir's iteration for the square root (Claerbout, 1995) belongs to the same family of iterative methods, if we make an appropriate choice of the generating function.



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2013-03-03