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Advantages and Drawbacks of Bisection Method

The document discusses the advantages and drawbacks of the bisection method for finding roots of functions. The advantages are that it is always convergent. The drawbacks are that it has slow convergence, slower convergence if an initial guess is close to the root, inability to find bounds if the function just touches the x-axis, and reporting a root that does not exist if the function changes sign but has no root.

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Advantages and Drawbacks of Bisection Method

The document discusses the advantages and drawbacks of the bisection method for finding roots of functions. The advantages are that it is always convergent. The drawbacks are that it has slow convergence, slower convergence if an initial guess is close to the root, inability to find bounds if the function just touches the x-axis, and reporting a root that does not exist if the function changes sign but has no root.

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Advantages and Drawbacks

of Bisection method
Advantages

• Always convergent

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Drawbacks

 Slow convergence
 If one of the initial guesses is close to the
root, the convergence is slower

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Drawbacks (continued)
• If a function f(x) is such that it just touches the x-axis
it will be unable to find the lower and upper guesses.

f(x)

f  x  x 2

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Drawbacks (continued)
 Function changes sign but root does not
exist

1
f(x)
f  x 
x
x

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