From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Fun with Unbounded Rational Numbers
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 10:47:05 +0200
Date: 2017-04-09T10:47:05+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <occs8h$6f4$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ocbvbn$h8r$1@z-news.wcss.wroc.pl>
On 04/09/2017 02:30 AM, antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote:
>
> newton(y : Fraction(Integer), eps : Fraction(Integer)) : Fraction(Integer) ==
> x : Fraction(Integer) := 1
> while abs(y - x^2) >= eps repeat
> x := (x + y/x)/2
> x
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look like Newton's method to me.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-08 10:37 Fun with Unbounded Rational Numbers Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-08 11:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-04-08 14:14 ` Robert Eachus
2017-04-09 0:30 ` antispam
2017-04-09 8:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2017-04-09 19:25 ` antispam
2017-04-10 17:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-11 21:39 ` antispam
2017-04-09 7:15 ` Paul Rubin
2017-04-09 8:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-09 21:18 ` Paul Rubin
2017-04-10 17:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-10 19:39 ` Paul Rubin
2017-04-09 10:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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