A note on Chambers’ method
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- Published by American Mathematical Society (AMS) in Mathematics of Computation
- Vol. 28 (126) , 573-574
- https://doi.org/10.1090/s0025-5718-1974-0341850-2
Abstract
A correction is given for one of Chambers’ second-order iteration formulae. It is shown that composition of the secant method with itself exhibits a convergence exponent of 2.414, whereas composition of the iteration function with itself yields an exponent of 2.831.Keywords
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