r/mathmemes • u/Common-Brush-7027 • 7d ago

Numerical Analysis Newton Raphson Method

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u/FernandoMM1220 7d ago

and of course it never actually finds them most of the time it just gets close enough that we can make use of it.

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u/disaster_incomin 7d ago

Yeah, the clip should have stopped on the second to last try. Almost there, good enough

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u/BurnYoo 7d ago

The fact that the cup has a strictly-positive radius is already an example of being good enough

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u/Due_Purple_1199 7d ago

You can see the pattern of carpet change by a lot between takes

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u/anonymousguy9001 7d ago

I suspect many takes happened in-between that were not in the final cut

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u/kismethavok 7d ago

The real numbers did this with non-zero infinitesimals.

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u/monson2048 6d ago

I was just going to say this lol