hi everyone can u pls help me to explain newtons method to find suare of a number and pls post its program also
If you mean the square root of a number you simply apply the newton method to the function f(x)=x*x-a, where a is the number whose square root will be computed
The following implementation is basic but should do the trick
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#define f(x) (x*x-2)//The function
#define d(x) (2*x)//Its derivative
//The square root of the number in the above number is computed here
//This program computes an approximation to the root of the
//function defined above via Newton's Method
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int istep;//loop control
double dl = 1e-14;//lower bound
double a, b, x0,dx;//variables
double x,xnew;//variables
a = 1; b =10;//This defines the range on which the root is saught
dx = b-a;
x0 = (a+b)/2;//This defines an initial approximation to the root
istep = 0;
//Newton's Method Algorithm
while (fabs(dx) > dl)
{
dx = f(x0)/d(x0);
x0 -= dx;
istep++;
}
cout<<"The Square Root Algorithm"<<endl;
cout<<" "<<endl;
cout<<"Newton's method converged in "<<istep<<" steps"<<endl;
cout<<" "<<endl;
cout<<"The square root is "<<endl;
cout<<" "<<endl;
printf("%16.24lf\n",x0);//For outoputting more digits of precision
cout<<" "<<endl;
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}
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