Bisection Method
An Interactive Applet powered by Sage and MathJax.
(By Kelsey Norman with HTML code from Prof. Gregory V. Bard)
\textrm{This demo shows the Bisection Method of finding a zero of a function. }
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\textrm{So long as } f(a) \textrm{ and } f(b) \textrm{ have opposite signs and } f \textrm{ is continuous on } [a, b], f \textrm{ will have}
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\textrm{a zero in the interval } [a, \, b] \textrm{ (Intermediate Value Theorem). The bisection method}
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\textrm{repeatedly cuts the search interval in half, identifying the side guaranteed to contain a zero. }
Last modified on July 28th, 2017.