[Maxima] problem with maxima's mnewton

[Robert Dodier]

On 12/14/09, Ether Jones <maxima at etherjones.us> wrote:

> please see attached plain-text file.
>
> can someone please explain why the mnewton function is not working in this
> example?

I tried the example and it appears that the depends(y, x)
is the origin of the problem with mnewton.
Try kill(x, y) (that will remove the dependency) and
then the mnewton call again --- does it work then?

I didn't figure out why depends(y, x) messes up mnewton.

best

Robert Dodier