Date:         Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:08:54 -0400
Reply-To:     Michael Johnston <mkjohnst@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Johnston <mkjohnst@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: newton-rapson method
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Hi Tracy,

There's a pretty good introduction to IML on the web here:

http://www.rhoworld.com/pdf/ch1099.pdf

HTH,

Mike


On 4/14/06, lisiqi77@yahoo.com <lisiqi77@yahoo.com> wrote:
> WOW!!! there is so much info in this post and I think it'll take me a
> lot of time to digest all of it....
>
> And I've never used IML before and this might be a silly question--I
> don't
> quite get Mike's codes in the "coefficients" section and "p=c3 || c2 ||
> c1
> || c0" as well. and it doesn't seem to be that you multiply r*(1+r)^2
> to both sides of the equation. Would this method be very cubersome for
> a 12th-order polynomial?
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Tracy
>