A fail-safe Newton's method



On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:37:09AM -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >I haven't yet heard from Numerical Recipes about my translation of their
> >Brent's method routine, so as a stop gap here is a little program which
> >implements a fail-safe Newton's method:
> >
> 
> Why not work directly from Brent's published algorithm?  There is no problem
> there....

Or even the description of the algorithm at wikipedia, which seems to
be reasonably coherent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent's_method



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