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Suppose I am looking for the root of a function of the form:
[tex]f(x)=x ^{m}-c[/tex], where c,m>1.
Suppose I take my first guess to be [tex]x _{0}=c[/tex].
Then using Newtons method my next guess will be given by:
[tex]x _{n+1}=x _{n} - \frac {f(x _{n})}{f'(x _{n})}[/tex].
From this, or thinking about this graphically it is obvoius that
[tex]x _{0}>x _{1}>x _{n}>x _{n+1}>c^{1/m}[/tex].
However I don't know how should I go about formally proving this.
[tex]f(x)=x ^{m}-c[/tex], where c,m>1.
Suppose I take my first guess to be [tex]x _{0}=c[/tex].
Then using Newtons method my next guess will be given by:
[tex]x _{n+1}=x _{n} - \frac {f(x _{n})}{f'(x _{n})}[/tex].
From this, or thinking about this graphically it is obvoius that
[tex]x _{0}>x _{1}>x _{n}>x _{n+1}>c^{1/m}[/tex].
However I don't know how should I go about formally proving this.