# Newton's Method - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method def newton(function,function1,startingInt): #function is the f(x) and function1 is the f'(x) x_n=startingInt while True: x_n1=x_n-function(x_n)/function1(x_n) if abs(x_n-x_n1) < 10**-5: return x_n1 x_n=x_n1 def f(x): return (x**3) - (2 * x) -5 def f1(x): return 3 * (x**2) -2 if __name__ == "__main__": print(newton(f,f1,3))