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+# Using python3
+# Newton-Raphson for square root
+# Find x such that x**2 - 1337 is within epsilon of 0.0001
+epsilon = 0.0001
+k = 1337.0
+
+
+def newton(n, eps):
+    guess = n/2.0
+    count = 1
+
+    while abs(guess*guess - n) >= eps:
+        guess = guess - (((guess**2) - n)/(2*guess))
+        print('Guess #', count, ' -> ', guess)
+        count += 1  # track no. of guesses
+
+    return guess
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    test = 1337
+    print('Square root of', test, 'is about', newton(test, 0.0001))
+    # should return ~ 36.565 for test = 1337