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Finding roots in a specific region of the complex plane, typically the real roots or the real roots in a given interval (for example, when roots represents a physical quantity, only the real positive ones are interesting). For finding one root, Newton's method and other general iterative methods work generally well.
However, most root-finding algorithms do not guarantee that they will find all roots of a function, and if such an algorithm does not find any root, that does not necessarily mean that no root exists. Most numerical root-finding methods are iterative methods, producing a sequence of numbers that ideally converges towards a root as a limit.
In this case a and b are said to bracket a root since, by the intermediate value theorem, the continuous function f must have at least one root in the interval (a, b). At each step the method divides the interval in two parts/halves by computing the midpoint c = (a+b) / 2 of the interval and the value of the function f(c) at that point.
If the function () is twice differentiable and the root is simple, then the intervals produced by the ITP method converges to 0 with an order of convergence of if or if = and () / is not a power of 2 with the term / not too close to zero (Theorem 2.3 of [3]).
The main objective of interval arithmetic is to provide a simple way of calculating upper and lower bounds of a function's range in one or more variables. These endpoints are not necessarily the true supremum or infimum of a range since the precise calculation of those values can be difficult or impossible; the bounds only need to contain the function's range as a subset.
b k is the current iterate, i.e., the current guess for the root of f. a k is the "contrapoint," i.e., a point such that f(a k) and f(b k) have opposite signs, so the interval [a k, b k] contains the solution. Furthermore, |f(b k)| should be less than or equal to |f(a k)|, so that b k is a better guess for the unknown solution than a k.
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The asymptotic behaviour is very good: generally, the iterates x n converge fast to the root once they get close. However, performance is often quite poor if the initial values are not close to the actual root. For instance, if by any chance two of the function values f n−2, f n−1 and f n coincide, the algorithm fails completely. Thus ...