A variant of Steffensen's method of fourth-order convergence and its applications (Q979290)
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A variant of Steffensen's method of fourth-order convergence and its applications (English)
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25 June 2010
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A variant of Steffensen's method is presented, which uses divided differences instead of derivatives. Fourth-order convergence is proved. Numerical tests are given for nonlinear algebraic and ordinary differential equations.
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nonlinear equations
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Newton's method
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Steffensen's method
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derivative free
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fourth-order convergence
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numerical examples
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