Re: A question on Newton's Method

"Jon Harrop" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What is Lisp-like about Mathematica and OCaml?

They are equally incomprehensible.

> Yes it does:

> In[1]:= f[x_] = x^3 - x - 1

> Out[1]= -1 - x + x^3

> In[2]:= D[f[x], x]

> Out[2]= -1 + 3 x^2

No, the right context is:

f[x_] := x^3-x-1
fp[x_] := D[f[x],x]
Plot[fp,{x,-1,2}]

Which, unless they changed Mathematica recently, doesn't
do anything useful.

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write(*,*) transfer((/17.392111325966148d0,6.5794487871554595D-85, &
6.0134700243160014d-154/),(/'x'/)); end


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