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18 Aug 2024 00:24:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It's been a while!  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 14 Jul 2001 01:04:27
Message: <3B4FD0FA.BA5B59F2@faricy.net>
Mike Metheny wrote:
> 
> Newton's method works in the complex plane exactly as it does on the real
> axis; you just start your iteration with a complex number.

I don't get it.  Wouldn't a 2d function (real+imaginary) have a
tangent-plane, not a tangent line?  And the intersection of that with
another plane is a line.  You'd want a point...  explain this to me.

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