Secant method - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secant_methodThe secant method does not require that the root remain bracketed, like the bisection method does, and hence it does not always converge. The false position method (or regula falsi) uses the same formula as the secant method. However, it does not apply the formula on and , like the secant method, but on and on the last iterate such that and have a different sign. This means that the false position methodalways converges; however, only with a linear order of convergence. B…
The Secant Method - USM
www.math.usm.edu › lambers › mat772As we can see, the iterates produced by the Secant Method are converging to the exact solution x = p 2, but not as rapidly as those produced by Newton’s Method. 2 We now prove that the Secant Method converges if x 0 is chosen su ciently close to a solution x of f(x) = 0, if f is continuously di erentiable near x and f0(x) = 6= 0. Without loss of