Suggest a few other values with which the program should be tested.
Answer:
1.0 is always a good number to worry about. Its square root is the same as itself; perhaps this special case will confuse the program? Also very large numbers should be tested; perhaps the initial guess of 1.0 will not work for them.
End of the Chapter
This is the end of the chapter. You may wish to root about in the following for something of interest.
- Idea of a result-controlled loop.
- Banking example of a result-controlled loop.
- Example of nested loops.
- Newton's Method
- Ending condition for Newton's Method
- Newton's Method program
You have reached the end of the chapter.