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  1. Show that the roots of sin(x) may be approximated by the Newton-Raphson formula
xn+1=xntan(xn)
  1. Use this formula, with a starting value of x0=3, to show that
π3.142

Notice that sin(π)=0 so that π is a root of sin(x)=0. We know that π3 so this is a good starting value for x0.


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