Tag Archives: Brents method

More iterative solvers

Posted on October 28, 2018 by

Following the recent post on using Brent’s Method solvers on an array (Iterative solvers and arrays), here is another example with an engineering related problem.  The example is included in the xlScipy3 spreadsheet, which can be downloaded from: xlScipy3.zip The depth … Continue reading →

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Iterative solvers and arrays

Posted on October 21, 2018 by

A recent thread at Eng-Tips was looking for a solution to the problem described  below: The solutions to this problem described below can be downloaded from: ItSolve.zip and xlScipy3.zip The ItSolve.xlsb spreadsheet contains a user defined function (UDF) to solve iterative … Continue reading →

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Brent’s Method; Update and Examples

Posted on December 6, 2017 by

Brent’s Method is a refinement of Newton’s Method for the numerical solution of any equation with one variable.  The User Defined Function (UDF) QuadBrent was described in:  The Inverse Quadratic Method 3 – Brent’s Method Following a recent question, I have … Continue reading →

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Brent’s Method and a daft engineer’s blog

Posted on December 23, 2016 by

Browsing links on Brent’s Method I found: Daft Engineer – Numerical Methods and Excel* which is well worth a look (plenty of stuff on statistics and Python, with the odd dash of Excel).  The link has VBA code for a … Continue reading →

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Solving non-linear equations with two or more unknowns – 1

Posted on September 30, 2015 by

Newton’s Method is a well known iterative solution for non-linear equations with one unknown.  That is, if some value Y depends on a variable X, then we can use Newton’s Method to find X for any given value of Y.  … Continue reading →

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