Use the do while statement to implement Newton's method for finding the square root of a number in CSharp

Description

The following code shows how to use the do while statement to implement Newton's method for finding the square root of a number.

Example


using System;//ww  w .  j a v a2 s.c o m

public class MainClass {
   public static void Main( ) {
      double epsilon   = 1.0e-9;
      double guess    = 11.0;
      double result   = 0.0;

      double value = 2;

      result = ((value / guess) + guess) / 2; 

      do {
            Console.WriteLine( "Guess Value  = {0}", guess  );
            Console.WriteLine( "Result Value = {0}", result );
            guess = result;
            result = ((value / guess) + guess) / 2;
      } while( Math.Abs(result - guess) > epsilon );
      Console.WriteLine("The approx sqrt of {0} is {1}", value, result );
    }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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