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Approximate solution of an equation : newton

newton takes as arguments : an expression ex, the variable name of this expression (by default x), and three values a (by default a=0), eps (by default eps=1e-8) and nbiter (by default nbiter=12).
newton(ex,x,a,eps,nbiter) computes an approximate solution x of the equation ex=0 using the Newton algorithm with starting point x=a. The maximum number of iterations is nbiter and the precision is eps.
Input :
newton(x^2-2,x,1)
Output :
1.41421356237
Input :
newton(x^2-2,x,-1)
Output :
-1.41421356237
Input :
newton(cos(x)-x,x,0)
Output :
0.739085133215



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