Solving Singular Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Using Continuous Genetic Algorithm

Table 13

The effect of the population size on the convergence speed and the corresponding error for Problem 2.

𝑁𝑝	Average generations	Average fitness	Average absolute error	Average absolute residual
100	1988	0.99964220	3.12718761×10^−6	3.97612490×10^−4
200	1790	0.99992624	1.47420585×10^−7	8.19555830×10^−5
300	1576	0.99995238	9.93440660×10^−8	5.29086025×10^−6
400	1401	0.99998115	4.25985666×10^−8	2.09453067×10^−6
500	1227	0.99999097	2.43196999×10^−9	3.36319589×10^−7
600	1157	0.99999471	8.92741387×10^−10	4.43209606×10^−8
700	1127	0.99999684	3.07785722×10^−10	2.09929902×10^−8
800	1105	0.99999879	1.85693238×10^−10	1.41213808×10^−8
900	1097	0.99999895	1.00214321×10^−10	9.94155486×10^−9
1000	1085	0.99999900	8.95207632×10^−11	1.44505115×10^−9