A bounding approach to calculating ^1/p

DOI10.1007/BF02242176MaRDI QIDQ2266564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. M. Cohen

Publication date 1985

Published in Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02242176

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic meangeometric meanharmonic meaninterval arithmetic estimatesp-th roots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary functions (26A09) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

Review text

The author proposes an approximation to \(\alpha^{1/p}\), \(\alpha >0\) from above and below. Actually for a good approximation \(x_{\nu}\), put \(a_{\nu +1}=[(p-1)x_{\nu}+(\alpha /x_{\nu}^{p-1})]/p,\) \(b_{\nu +1}=p/[(p-1)/x_{\nu}+x_{\nu}^{p-1}/\alpha].\) Then \(a_{\nu +1}\geq \alpha^{1/p}\geq b_{\nu +1}\) by the inequality of means. He proves that the sequence \(x_{\nu +1}=(a_{\nu +1}+b_{\nu +1})/2\) tends to \(\alpha^{1/p}\) cubically.

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