The Secant Method - USM
www.math.usm.edu › lambers › mat772to the solution x. Convergence is not as rapid as that of Newton’s Method, since the secant-line approximation of f is not as accurate as the tangent-line approximation employed by Newton’s method. Example We will use the Secant Method to solve the equation f(x) = 0, where f(x) = x2 2. This method requires that we choose two initial iterates x 0 and x
THE SECANT METHOD - University of Iowa
homepage.math.uiowa.edu/~whan/3800.d/S3-3.pdfIt is clear from the numerical results that the secant method requires more iterates than the Newton method (e.g., with Newton’s method, the iterate x 6 is accurate to the machine precision of around 16 decimal digits). But note that the secant method does not require a knowledge of f0(x), whereas Newton’s method requires both f(x) and f0(x).
THE SECANT METHOD
homepage.math.uiowa.edu › ~whan › 3800The Secant Method Recall the formula x 2 = x 1 f(x 1) x 1 x 0 f(x 1) f(x 0): The Secant Method Initialization. Two initial guesses x 0 and x 1 of are chosen. Iteration. For n = 1;2;3; , x n+1 = x n f(x n) x n x n 1 f(x n) f(x n 1) until certain stopping criterion is satis ed (required solution accuracy or maximal number of iterations is reached).