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Newton's Method on a Mesh of Initial Guesses

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This Demonstration shows the path of 50 iterations of Newton's method from a mesh of starting points attempting to solve the cubic equation . A "featured" initial guess is highlighted in blue. If the absolute value of is less than , no iteration is taken.

Contributed by: Ken Levasseur (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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