Examples of when Newton's Method will fail? Newton's method eventually gets into the never ending cycle, bouncing between the same two approximations x_i and x_(i)+1.

Luciano Webster

Luciano Webster

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2022-07-22

Examples of when Newton's Method will fail?
Newton's method eventually gets into the never ending cycle, bouncing between the same two approximations x i and x i + 1 .

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suponeriq

suponeriq

Beginner2022-07-23Added 10 answers

f ( x ) = { x , x 0 x , x < 0
has the peculiar property that for any initial guess x 0 0, the orbit is trapped in a cycle of period 2, with x k = x k 1 . This is quite easy to prove and is left as an exercise for the reader.

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