Tag Archives: numerical

Hero’s Method : Evaluating square root of a real number

Posted on April 27, 2010 by phoxis

A floating point number is given. the task is to evaluate the value of its square root. We will discuss how to find the square root of a real number in this post, and also present a C Language code which does this job. The value of the root will be evaluated with the Hero’s method. Continue reading →

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Finding qth real root of a real number

Posted on April 27, 2010 by phoxis

In this post we will see how to find nth roots of a positive real number. We will use the Newton-Raphson method to deduce an iterative formula, and see its convergence. Continue reading →

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