Newton's Method Obeys Benford's Law

DOI10.1080/00029890.2007.11920449MaRDI QIDQ5445950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Arno Berger, Theodore P. Hill

Publication date 6 March 2008

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2007.11920449

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawNewton's methodnonuniformity of significant digitsnumerical examplesroundoff errorzeros of functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. (11K16) Roundoff error (65G50) Numerical computation of solutions to single equations (65H05)

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