Research Article

An Efficient Family of Root-Finding Methods with Optimal Eighth-Order Convergence

Table 2

Comparison of methods using same total number of function evaluations for all methods (TFE = 12).

NMC8L8 P8T8B81B82B83M81M82M83
,

, = 1.6
ρ 2.0000000 7.9999999 7.9999999 8.0000000 7.9999999 7.9999989 7.9999989 7.9999989 7.9999997 7.9999997 7.9999997

, = 2.0
ρ 2.0000000 8.0000000 7.9999993 8.0000000 7.9999994 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000

, = 1.8
ρ 2.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 7.9999997 7.9999997 7.9999997

, = 1.0
ρ 2.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000

, = −0.5
ρ 2.0000000 7.9999339 7.9996776 7.9999847 8.0000580 8.0000594 8.0000603 7.9995556 7.9995321 7.9995437

, = 2.0
ρ 2.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000

, = 3.2
ρ 2.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000 8.0000000

, = 1.0
ρ 2.0000000 8.0000004 8.0000018 8.0000001 8.0000021 8.0000012 8.0000009 8.0000014 8.0000001 8.0000001 8.0000001

, = −1
ρ 2.0000000 8.0000001 8.0000002 8.0000000 8.0000000 7.9999987 7.9999984 8.0001475 8.0001379 8.0001426