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An apparently new method to compute the $n$th root of any complex number

I found  a series of articles (in Portuguese) by a Brazilian mathematician named Ludenir Santos, where presents a series of iterative methods, he said new, to extract nth roots of any complex number...

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Answer by hmakholm left over Monica for An apparently new method to compute...

If one allows successive approximation methods (which indeed should be fair game for numerical solutions), then Newton-Raphson has been known for a long time already.The iteration you quote seems to be...

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Answer by Lutz Lehmann for An apparently new method to compute the $n$th root...

If $|x|<1$ then the binomial series for the n-th root reads as$$(1+x)^{\frac1n}=1+\frac1n x+\frac{\frac1n(\frac1n-1)}2x^2+…$$which shows that the given formula is an approximation to the truncation...

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