An improved regula falsi method with quadratic convergence of both diameter and point for enclosing simple zeros of nonlinear equations

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 144, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 381-388

  Wu, Xinyuan ^a   Shen, Zuhe ^a   Xia, Jianlin ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High order of convergence; Iteration method; Nonlinear equations; Regula falsi; Root finding

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ROOT FINDING;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0038451467     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00414-9     Document Type: Article

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