Four-point optimal sixteenth-order iterative method for solving nonlinear equations (Q1791347)

Summary: We present an iterative method for solving nonlinear equations. The proposed iterative method has optimal order of convergence sixteen in the sense of Kung-Traub conjecture [\textit{H. T. Kung} and \textit{J. F. Traub}, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 21, 643--651 (1974; Zbl 0289.65023)]; it means that the iterative scheme uses five functional evaluations to achieve \(16(=2^{5-1})\) order of convergence. The proposed iterative method utilizes one derivative and four function evaluations. Numerical experiments are made to demonstrate the convergence and validation of the iterative method.