Thomas' Calculus 13th Edition

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Chapter 4: Applications of Derivatives - Section 4.6 - Newton's Method - Exercises 4.6 - Page 231: 18

Answer

$3.141592654$

Work Step by Step

Step 1. Given $f(x)=tan(x)$, we have $f'(x)=sec^2(x)$. Step 2. Using Newton’s method $x_{n+1}=x_n-\frac{f(x_n)}{f'(x_n)}$ with a starting point $x_0=3$, we can obtain the estimation of $\pi$ as shown in the table as $3.141592654$
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