Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51207#.VFsrwGfHRK0 Author(s) Charles Corrêa Dias 1 , Fernanda Jaiara Dellajustina 2 , Luciano Camargo Martins 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Joinville, Brazil . 2 Department of Physics, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Joinville, Brazil . ABSTRACT In this paper we propose two original iterated maps to numerically approximate the nth root of a real number. Comparisons between the new maps and the famous Newton-Raphson method are carried out, including fixed point determination, stability analysis and measure of the mean convergence time, w...
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