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Subject: Re: Fun with Unbounded Rational Numbers
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 10:47:05 +0200
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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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