The paths that NR follows if we start at the blue, green, and orange dots: the winning attractor is evidently not always the root closest to the initial condition
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Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.
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