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Brent’s Method; Update and Examples

Posted on December 6, 2017 by

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The Inverse Quadratic Method 3 – Brent’s Method

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

The previous post in this series presented iterative methods to solve polynomial equations using direct or inverse quadratic interpolation.  These methods have two disadvantages: In some circumstances the function may converge very slowly, or not at all. The name of … Continue reading →

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