Whitman College: David Guichard's "Calculus, Chapter 6: Applications of the Derivative, Section 6.3: Newton's Method"

Read Section 6.3 (pages 135-138). In this reading, you will be introduced to a numerical approximation technique called Newton's Method. This method is useful for finding approximate solutions to equations which cannot be solved exactly.

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