Newton Raphson

The first 3 steps of the Newton Raphson Iteration.
This is a numeric method of finding the zero of a function. If it converged it converges quickly, but sometimes it does not converge.
You can drag A to different places and observe where it appears to be converging.

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f(x)
3rd approximation

You can also change the definition of the function

App generated by Geometry Expressions