Who Is Secant Method?

In numerical analysis, the secant method is a root-finding algorithm that uses a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate a root of a function f. The secant method can be thought of as a finite-difference approximation of Newton's method.

What is the secant method formula?

Compute the root of the equation x2e–x/2 = 1 in the interval [0, 2] using the secant method. The root should be correct to three decimal places. x0 = 1.42, x1 = 1.43, f(x0) = – 0.0086, f(x1) = 0.00034. Since, x2 and x3 matching up to three decimal places, the required root is 1.429.

Who discovered secant method?

The History of the Secant Method. The secant method was created over 3000 years before Newton's method. A special case of this method was first called the rule of double false position in 18th-Century B.C. Babylonian clay tablets.

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