> The various admonitions to publish to a personal blog, while encouraging, don't really get at the 0xfaded's request

They also completely missed the fact that 0xfaded did write a blog post and it’s linked in the second sentence of the SO post.

> There is a relatively simple numerical method with better convergence than Newtons Method. I have a blog post about why it works http://wet-robots.ghost.io/simple-method-for-distance-to-ell...