A Method to Accelerate the Convergence of the Secant Algorithm

<table class="algorithm-group"><tr><td><table class="algorithm" id="alg1"><tr><td colspan="2">define imax(p)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> if p  =  −1  or  p  =  0</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">    return 0</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> else if p  ≤  n</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">    return p  −  1</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> else</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">    return  n</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Advances in Numerical Analysis

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Algorithm 1: A Method to Accelerate the Convergence of the Secant Algorithm 