The equation f (x) 0 can be rearranged in the form of a fixed point equation
g(x) f (x) x x. The solution(s) to such type of equation is(are) computed
iteratively through some iterative procedure. The Newton-Raphson ((N-R) method
is one of the most popularly used iterative methods for solving such nonlinear
equations. If n1 x
represents
the (n+1)th iterate of the N-R method, then we have
( )
( )
1
n
n
n n f x
f x
x x
(1)