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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Sat Sep 4 19:26:09 2010 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +2 -1 lines
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# Content
1 { RCSid $Id$ }
2 {
3 root.cal - calculate zeroes of functions using Newton's method.
4
5 2/3/88
6 }
7
8 FTINY : 1e-12;
9
10 root(f, x0) = root2(f, x0, x0-f(x0)/lim(f1(f,x0)), nit);
11
12 root2(f, x0, x1, i) = if(i,
13 if(err-abs(x1-x0),
14 x1,
15 root2(f,x1,x1-f(x1)/lim(f1(f,x1)),i-1)),
16 0);
17
18 abs(x) = if(x, x, -x);
19 lim(x) = if(x, max(x,err), -max(-x,err));
20 max(a,b) = if(a-b, a, b);
21
22 f1(f,x) = (f(x+FTINY)-f(x-FTINY))/(2*FTINY); { numerical derivative }
23
24 err = 1e-6;
25 nit = 100;