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Iteration Script File Help

Hi, Im working on matlab, and need to create a script file that will read an initial approximation to a root, and find it to 14 decimal places, aslo making sure no more than 10 iterations are performed. I have created m-files corresponding to my equation and its derivatives in the form f(x)=0 saved a f,df and ddf and now need to create a script file using Halleys method to iterate. Everything I have tried fails, I've read through my textbook multiple times and I have come to a complete standstill. Any help in what I am to do to create a working script file would be greatly appreciated. If anyone is willing to help but feels I'm being unclear please send me a message anyway and I will try to describe what it is I need to do in more detail.

"Jerry " <jerrycombes@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message <gt2i6a$ing$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi, Im working on matlab, and need to create a script file that will read an initial approximation to a root, and find it to 14 decimal places, aslo making sure no more than 10 iterations are performed. I have created m-files corresponding to my equation and its derivatives in the form f(x)=0 saved a f,df and ddf and now need to create a script file using Halleys method to iterate. Everything I have tried fails, I've read through my textbook multiple times and I have come to a complete standstill. Any help in what I am to do to create a working script file would be greatly appreciated. If anyone is willing to help but feels I'm being unclear please send me a message anyway and I will try to describe what it is I need to do in more detail.
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  You need to describe to us what it is you have tried and even then you can usually expect only outlines for possible procedures. It is not enough to state "Everything I have tried fails." Tell us what it is you did that failed.

  It is important that you realize that Halley's iteration method really does work if you start with sufficiently close initial estimates and provided your code faithfully carries out the appropriate processing. When it succeeds it usually converges extremely rapidly but it is comparatively sensitive to the amount of "miss" in initial estimates. There is certainly no guarantee that with just any initial guess it will converge at all, much less that it will converge in no more that ten iterations!

Roger Stafford

On Apr 27, 9:03=A0am, "Jerry " <jerrycom...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, Im working on matlab, and need to create a script file that will read=
 an initial approximation to a root, and find it to 14 decimal places, aslo=
 making sure no more than 10 iterations are performed. I have created m-fil=
es corresponding to my equation and its derivatives in the form f(x)=3D0 sa=
ved a f,df and ddf and now need to create a script file using Halleys metho=
d to iterate. Everything I have tried fails, I've read through my textbook =
multiple times and I have come to a complete standstill. Any help in what I=
 am to do to create a working script file would be greatly appreciated. If =
anyone is willing to help but feels I'm being unclear please send me a mess=
age anyway and I will try to describe what it is I need to do in more detai=
l.

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