[sage-support] Re: Is newton-raphson already in SAGE?

2009-04-04 Thread David Joyner
Sort of. Look in the examples/calculus subdirectory. On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Brian medo...@gmail.com wrote: Is newton-raphson already in SAGE? Thanks, Brian --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com

[sage-support] Re: Is newton-raphson already in SAGE?

2009-04-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:24 AM, David Joyner wrote: Sort of. Look in the examples/calculus subdirectory. The algorithm is used all over--e.g. square roots of power series are computed via newton-raphson. I am pretty sure many of the numerical optimization/root finding algorithms use it as

[sage-support] Re: Is newton-raphson already in SAGE?

2009-04-04 Thread Brian
Finding the yield of a bond given a price. You can see a demonstration here: http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/423/ The newton-raphson usage starts after the 3d plot. Brian On Apr 4, 1:06 pm, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:24 AM, David Joyner wrote: