It's not just the numerical analysis aspect: what if the interviewer was looking for knowledge of functional programming (given Javascript's support for first o

It's not just the numerical analysis aspect: what if the interviewer was looking for knowledge of functional programming (given Javascript's support for first order functions)? Given that square root via Newton's Method is one of the first "wow this is really neat" things that struck out to me when I read SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html#%_sec_1.1.7 http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html...