An optimal Steffensen-type family for solving nonlinear equations (Q555350)

The paper is devoted to the numerical solution of nonlinear equations \(f(x) = 0\). The authors use Newton's iteration for the direct Newtonian interpolation of the function to construct optimal Steffensen-type methods of second-, fourth- and eighth-order, which use only two, three and four evaluations of the function, respectively. Moreover, they deduce the corresponding error equations and asymptotic convergence constants. The proposed general optimal Steffensen-type family only uses \(n\) evaluations of \(f\) to achieve the optimal \(2^{n-1}\)th order of convergence for solving the simple root of nonlinear functions, and the authors compare this family with Newton's method, Steffensen's method, Ren-Wu-Bi's method, Kung-Traub's method and Neta-Petković's method for solving nonlinear equations in numerical examples.