Efficient four-parametric with-and-without-memory iterative methods possessing high efficiency indices (Q1721479)

Summary: We construct a family of derivative-free optimal iterative methods without memory to approximate a simple zero of a nonlinear function. Error analysis demonstrates that the without-memory class has eighth-order convergence and is extendable to with-memory class. The extension of new family to the with-memory one is also presented which attains the convergence order \(15.5156\) and a very high efficiency index \(15.515 6^{1 / 4} \approx 1.9847\). Some particular schemes of the with-memory family are also described. Numerical examples and some dynamical aspects of the new schemes are given to support theoretical results.