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The Secant Method - USM

Jim Lambers MAT 772 Fall Semester 2010-11 Lecture 4 Notes These notes correspond to Sections 1.5 and 1.6 in the text. The Secant Method One drawback of Newton’s method is that it is necessary to evaluate f0(x) at various points, which may not be practical for some choices of f.

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