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  1. Show that the roots of sin⁡(x) may be approximated by the Newton-Raphson formula
xn+1=xn−tan⁡(xn)
  1. Use this formula, with a starting value of x0=3, to show that
π≈3.142

Notice that sin⁡(π)=0 so that π is a root of sin⁡(x)=0. We know that π≈3 so this is a good starting value for x0.


Give your second approximation, x2, to 9 decimal places.