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The “divide and average” method, an old time method forapproximating the square root of any positive number a, can beformulated as

x = (x + a/x) / 2

Write a well-structured M-file function based on the while…breakloop structure to implement this algorithm. At each step estimatethe error in your approximation as

? = abs(( Xnew ? Xold )/Xnew

Repeat the loop until e is less than or equal to a specifiedvalue. Design your program so that it returns both the result andthe error. Make sure that it can evaluate the square root ofnumbers that are equal to and less than zero. For the latter case,display the result as an imaginary number. Test your program byevaluating a = 0, 2, 10 and -4 for ? = 1×10?4. Hint: This issimilar to the IterMeth function discussed in class.

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