2009/5/17 Alan Bromborsky abro...@verizon.net
A standard technique is to search by halves until you get an interval
you know you have a root in and switch to the secant, newton, or some
higher order method to polish the root. Secant might fail if there are
multiple roots in the interval
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Vinzent Steinberg
vinzent.steinb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Yeah, this is what I changed in my patch. 0.001 was too small, but 0.01 did
the job. Shouldn't this be the default instead of 0.25?
There's a tradeoff, and there are examples where 0.01 fails too...
2009/5/17 Fredrik Johansson fredrik.johans...@gmail.com
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Vinzent Steinberg
vinzent.steinb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Yeah, this is what I changed in my patch. 0.001 was too small, but 0.01
did
the job. Shouldn't this be the default instead of 0.25?
There's
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Vinzent Steinberg
vinzent.steinb...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/5/17 Fredrik Johansson fredrik.johans...@gmail.com
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Vinzent Steinberg
vinzent.steinb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Yeah, this is what I changed in my patch. 0.001 was
