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Exercise 1.40

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Define a procedure cubic that can be used together with the newtons-method procedure in expressions of the form

(newtons-method (cubic a b c) 1)

to approximate zeros of the cubic x3 + ax2 + bx + c.

Corresponding Section: 
1.3.4 Procedures as Returned Values

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