Finding the yield of a bond given a price. You can see a demonstration here: http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/423/
The newton-raphson usage starts after the 3d plot. Brian On Apr 4, 1:06 pm, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:24 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > > Sort of. Look in the examples/calculus subdirectory. > > The algorithm is used all over--e.g. square roots of power series are > computed via newton-raphson. I am pretty sure many of the numerical > optimization/root finding algorithms use it as well. What are you > trying to use it for? > > > > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Brian <medo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Is newton-raphson already in SAGE? > > >> Thanks, Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---