The square root of a number N is to be obtained by applying the Newton Raphson iterations to the equation x2 - N = 0, if i denotes the iteration index, the correct iterative scheme will be

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The square root of a number N is to be obtained by applying the Newton Raphson iterations to the equation x2 - N = 0, if i denotes the iteration index, the correct iterative scheme will be

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Correct Answer is : xi+1 = (xi + N/xi)/2

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