THE SECANT METHOD
homepage.math.uiowa.edu › ~whan › 3800ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES Advantages of secant method: 1. It converges at faster than a linear rate, so that it is more rapidly convergent than the bisection method. 2. It does not require use of the derivative of the function, something that is not available in a number of applications. 3. It requires only one function evaluation per iteration, as