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% Bisection Method applied to user defined f(x)
% Date: Jan 27, 1999
% by Yuri V Lvov
% The Bisection method is relatively slow compared to the Secant or Newton's
% method.
x = []; i=1;
a = .9; % initial guess
b = 10000; % initial guess
while (abs(a-b)>.0001),
mid = (a+b)/2;
if (f(a)*f(mid) >0),
a = mid;
else
b = mid;
end
disp(i);disp(' mid=');disp(mid);i=i+1;
end