No Fooling! Newton's Method Can Be Fooled

DOI10.1080/0025570X.2007.11953515zbMath1149.65036OpenAlexW2799661127MaRDI QIDQ3526256

Peter Horton

Publication date: 25 September 2008

Published in: Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570x.2007.11953515

zbMATH Keywords

convergencenumerical examplesNewton method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to single equations (65H05) Rounding, estimation, theory of errors (educational aspects) (97N20)

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