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Should node finding use Newton or Gauss-Newton?

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Description

Upsides of Gauss-Newton:

- More robust?
- Gives us "the closest" if the exact point can't be found

Downside:
- Conditioning penalty via the normal equations

https://github.com/inducer/meshmode/blob/dd247039a027e9b75417e4fdddf8cc4c608b6622/meshmode/discretization/connection/opposite_face.py#L136-L153

cc @xywei @alexfikl @majosm

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