Newton's method - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_methodNewton's method is a powerful technique—in general the convergence is quadratic: as the method converges on the root, the difference between the root and the approximation is squared (the number of accurate digits roughly doubles) at each step. However, there are some difficulties with the method. Newton's method requires that the derivative can be calculated directly. An analytical expressio…
successive iteration successive approximation
terpconnect.umd.edu › ~nsw › chbe250contains a purely x term on the LHS. Let us illustrate the successive methods with the old-fashioned square root problem where the objective is to find a number x such that x2 x.x a (1) Note that algebra tells us that there are two roots. In the following discussion, let us take as an example: a 10 Of course, we symbolically denote such a ...
Root-finding algorithms - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root-finding_algorithmsFinding roots of polynomial is a long-standing problem that has been the object of much research throughout history. A testament to this is that up until the 19th century algebra meant essentially theory of polynomial equations. Finding the root of a linear polynomial (degree one) is easy and needs only one division. For quadratic polynomials (degree two), the quadratic formulaproduces a solution, but its numerical …