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Title

Third-order modifications of Newton’s method based on Stolarsky and Gini means
Authors

Djordje Herceg
Organization: Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Dragoslav Herceg
Organization: Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Journal / Anthology

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Year: 2013
Volume: 245
Page range: 53-61
Description

In this paper we consider third-order modifications of Newton’s method for solving nonlinear equations. Considered methods are based on Stolarsky and Gini means, Stolarsky (1975) [13], Stolarsky (1980) [14], Chen (2008) [12] and depend on two parameters. Some known methods are special cases of our methods, for example, the power mean Newton’s method Zhou (2007) [10], the arithmetic mean Newton’s method Weerakoon and Fernando (2000) [5], the harmonic mean Newton’s method, Özban (2004) [8] and the geometric mean Newton’s method, Lukić and Ralević (2008) [9]. Third order convergence of the considered methods is proved, and corresponding asymptotic error constants are expressed in terms of two parameters. Numerical examples, obtained using Mathematica with high precision arithmetic, support the theoretical results. Some numerical tests were performed, and it was shown that our methods yield better numerical results (i.e. a smaller error |x4 − α|) when compared to Halley, Euler, Hansen-Patrick, Ostrowski and inverse interpolation methods.
Subjects

*Applied Mathematics
*Applied Mathematics > Computer Science