Further Examples: NestWhileList

This gives the list of consecutive integers starting at up to the next integer that is prime.

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is the th integer counting from .

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Here is a function that takes a single step in the Newton approximation to .

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This repeatedly applies step, stopping when successive results are no longer considered unequal.

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Here are two more ways to get the same result.

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