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Determination of a suitable initial estimate for a root of an equation ƒ(x) = 0 by means of computing the roots of a sequence of related equations is described.

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Abstract: The classical Newton-Raphson method is generalized to solve nonsquare and nonlinear problems of size m/spl times/n with m/spl les/n. Using this generalized Newton-Raphson method as a core, a ...