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Mathematical methods relating to successive approximation include the following:

• Babylonian method, for finding square roots of numbers
• Fixed-point iteration
• Means of finding zeros of functions:
  • Halley's method
  • Newton's method
• Differential-equation matters:
  • Picard–Lindelöf theorem, on existence of solutions of differential equations
  • Runge–Kutta methods, for numerical solution of differential equations

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