Newton's method is likely to diverge if the initial guess is close to a value at which

a. the sign of the function value changes
b. the first derivative of the function evaluates to zero
c. the function evaluates to zero
d. no valid completion: Newton's method always converges.

b. the first derivative of the function evaluates to zero

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