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How to slice your code into continuations

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The code snippet doesn't make sense to me:

    a = 1/(1+7)
    b = 2*a+sqrt(a)
    c = atan(b)/(1+c)
    return c+2*d

Note that the assignment to 'c' depends on it already having a value?

... *d ?

I took this to be a chunk of some wider bit of code in which c and d were defined previously and we’re interested in this section in particular.

I suspect the 2nd "c" is "b" if you look a bit further the continuation. But as for the first "d" in return, no idea.

Use Newton’s method