Tag: Newton

The first Macintosh came out in 1984 with a familiar formula: expensive, limited, but elegant and easy to use. From the start it was something of a cult classic. Apple was struggling financially, and spent most of the 90s on hair-brained ideas: the Newton, the Pippin, the QuickTake. A...

The Newton Raphson method (also known as the Newton method) is an easy method to quickly identify the roots of a given expression — using an iterative method. It involves taking an initial approximation and refining the same by traversing toward the local minima of the function. The iterati...