Newton-Raphson Method to Find Roots of a Polynomial

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Newton's method can be used to find roots or zero crossing of a real valued function.
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Root finding problems are often encountered in numerical analysis. Newton-Raphson method is the simplest among all root finding algorithm, which is illustrated to find roots of a simple polynomial X*X-7=0.
Ref [1]: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~gerhard/classes/331/lab/newton.html

Ref [2]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_method

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Sathyanarayan Rao (2024). Newton-Raphson Method to Find Roots of a Polynomial (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/46396-newton-raphson-method-to-find-roots-of-a-polynomial), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Inspired by: Newton's Method

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