English Explanatory Dictionary

Newton's method

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.

Word forms

Newton's method

Etymology

Named after Isaac Newton.

Synonyms

Newton-Raphson method
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