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Worse than Bisection???!!!!
01-26-2014, 06:01 PM
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RE: Worse than Bisection???!!!!
A variant of this method using 10 instead of 2 is used to calculate the square root in HP-calculators. But of course it takes advantage of the fact that \(f(x_{n+1})\) can be calculated easily based on \(f(x_{n})\). Thus it's not a bad method per se.

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Worse than Bisection???!!!! - Namir - 01-26-2014, 02:36 PM
RE: Worse than Bisection???!!!! - Thomas Klemm - 01-26-2014 06:01 PM
RE: Worse than Bisection???!!!! - Namir - 01-26-2014, 07:06 PM
RE: Worse than Bisection???!!!! - Dan W - 01-28-2014, 03:18 AM
RE: Worse than Bisection???!!!! - ttw - 07-17-2014, 06:38 PM
RE: Worse than Bisection???!!!! - Namir - 07-17-2014, 08:43 PM



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