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  2. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    From this, it can be seen that the rate of convergence is superlinear but subquadratic. This can be seen in the following tables, the left of which shows Newton's method applied to the above f(x) = x + x 4/3 and the right of which shows Newton's method applied to f(x) = x + x 2. The quadratic convergence in iteration shown on the right is ...

  3. Slope field - Wikipedia

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    Slope field. , respectively. A slope field (also called a direction field[1]) is a graphical representation of the solutions to a first-order differential equation [2] of a scalar function. Solutions to a slope field are functions drawn as solid curves. A slope field shows the slope of a differential equation at certain vertical and horizontal ...

  4. Parametric equation - Wikipedia

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    Parametric equation. Representation of a curve by a function of a parameter. The butterfly curve can be defined by parametric equations of x and y. In mathematics, a parametric equation defines a group of quantities as functions of one or more independent variables called parameters. [1] Parametric equations are commonly used to express the ...

  5. Method of characteristics - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In mathematics, the method of characteristics is a technique for solving partial differential equations. Typically, it applies to first-order equations, though in general characteristic curves can also be found for hyperbolic and parabolic partial differential equation.

  6. Function (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In mathematics, a function from a set X to a set Y assigns to each element of X exactly one element of Y. [1] The set X is called the domain of the function [2] and the set Y is called the codomain of the function. [3] Functions were originally the idealization of how a varying quantity depends on another quantity.

  7. Iterative method - Wikipedia

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    Algorithm in which each approximation of the solution is derived from prior approximations. In computational mathematics, an iterative method is a mathematical procedure that uses an initial value to generate a sequence of improving approximate solutions for a class of problems, in which the i -th approximation (called an "iterate") is derived ...

  8. Graph of a function - Wikipedia

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    Function. In mathematics, the graph of a function is the set of ordered pairs , where In the common case where and are real numbers, these pairs are Cartesian coordinates of points in a plane and often form a curve. The graphical representation of the graph of a function is also known as a plot. In the case of functions of two variables ...

  9. Cubic function - Wikipedia

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    Here the function is f(x) = (x3 + 3x2 − 6x − 8)/4. In mathematics, a cubic function is a function of the form that is, a polynomial function of degree three. In many texts, the coefficients a, b, c, and d are supposed to be real numbers, and the function is considered as a real function that maps real numbers to real numbers or as a complex ...