From: Sander Land <sander.land@...>
Date: 2008-02-10T23:58:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION][QUIZ] Internal Rate of Return (#156)

Here is my golfed solution, using Newton's method.
No sanity checks for the input or anything, but usually gives a result
which is accurate to >10 digits.

def irr(i)
x=1;9.times{x=x-(n=d=t=0;i.map{|e|n+=_=e*x**t-=1;d+=t*_/x};n/d)};x-1
end

And James: So long, and thanks for all the quiz'.