Somewhat off-topic comment: it is interesting to see the "peripheral" knowledge that exists in this forum behind the cute on line names and avatars. As I was reading through some of the posts I was wondering if Newton's method would be brought up, and sure enough (along with apologies for not including the degenerate case!), there it was. Way to go people!

On topic comment: Numbers is not Excel and I imagine has no intention of becoming equivalent. It is the spreadsheet for the rest of us.

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