Problem 966. Bisection method of finding a root.

Created by Robert Canfield

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Claudio Gelmi on 21 May 2013

I got lazy about this one...

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Khaled Hamed on 16 Nov 2012

This is just a test. The value in the 4th test seems to come from 21 iterations only. The stopping criterion is not working also. Did I get it wrong?

Khaled Hamed on 17 Nov 2012

Oops! my bad, I calculated the stop criterion incorrectly.

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Tim on 2 Oct 2012

This is a pretty lame solution, but it is all you asked for...

Robert Canfield on 8 Oct 2012

It was just a first step for demonstration. More tests to come.

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