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Created February 27, 2017 17:50
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Computing the square root of a given number using Newton method.java
import java.util.Scanner ;
public class sdz {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println(squaroot(2,16,0.05));
}
static double squaroot(int start, double number , double precision){
double u0 = start;
double un;
do {
un = u0;
u0 = 0.5*(un + number/un);
}while(Math.abs(un-u0)> precision);
return u0;
}
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