Interestingly enough, I recently wrote a post explaining how to take a binary search and derive Newton's method from it: http://stevekrenzel.com/articles/newton

Interestingly enough, I recently wrote a post explaining how to take a binary search and derive Newton's method from it: http://stevekrenzel.com/articles/newtons-law http://stevekrenzel.com/articles/newtons-law It's a fairly straight-forward transformation.