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Find root of a number using Newton's method

Last Updated : 30 Oct, 2023

Given an integer N and a tolerance level L, the task is to find the square root of that number using Newton's Method.
Examples:

Input: N = 16, L = 0.0001 
Output:
42 = 16
Input: N = 327, L = 0.00001 
Output: 18.0831 



Newton's Method:
Let N be any number then the square root of N can be given by the formula: 

root = 0.5 * (X + (N / X)) where X is any guess which can be assumed to be N or 1. 


  • In the above formula, X is any assumed square root of N and root is the correct square root of N.
  • Tolerance limit is the maximum difference between X and root allowed.


Approach: The following steps can be followed to compute the answer: 

  1. Assign X to the N itself.
  2. Now, start a loop and keep calculating the root which will surely move towards the correct square root of N.
  3. Check for the difference between the assumed X and calculated root, if not yet inside tolerance then update root and continue.
  4. If the calculated root comes inside the tolerance allowed then break out of the loop.
  5. Print the root.


Below is the implementation of the above approach: 


Output
18.0831

Time Complexity: O(log N)

Auxiliary Space: O(1)

Recursive Approach:

  • Start by defining the function findSqrt that takes three arguments - the number whose square root is to be found N, the current guess guess, and the tolerance level tolerance.
  • Compute the next guess using the Newton's formula next_guess = (guess + N/guess) / 2.
  • Check if the difference between the current guess and the next guess is <= tolerance level tolerance using the abs() function. If the condition is satisfied, return the next guess.
  • Otherwise, recursively call the findSqrt function with the new guess.
  • Last print the result

Below is the implementation of the above approach: 


Output
18.0831

Time Complexity: O(log N), where N is the input number.

Auxiliary Space: O(log N)

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