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In numerical analysis, the secant method is a root-finding algorithm that uses a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate a root of a functionf. The secant method can be thought of as a finite-difference approximation of Newton's method. However, the method was developed independently of Newton's method and predates it by over 3000 years.^[1]

The method[edit]

The secant method is defined by the recurrence relation

${\displaystyle x_n=x_{n-1}-f(x_{n-1})\frac{x_{n-1}-x_{n-2}}{f(x_{n-1})-f(x_{n-2})}=\frac{x_{n-2}f(x_{n-1})-x_{n-1}f(x_{n-2})}{f(x_{n-1})-f(x_{n-2})}.}$

As can be seen from the recurrence relation, the secant method requires two initial values, x₀ and x₁, which should ideally be chosen to lie close to the root.

Derivation of the method[edit]

Starting with initial values x₀ and x₁, we construct a line through the points (x₀, f(x₀)) and (x₁, f(x₁)), as shown in the picture above. In slope–intercept form, the equation of this line is

${\displaystyle y=\frac{f(x_1)-f(x_0)}{x_1-x_0}(x-x_1)+f(x_1).}$

The root of this linear function, that is the value of x such that y = 0 is

${\displaystyle x=x_1-f(x_1)\frac{x_1-x_0}{f(x_1)-f(x_0)}.}$

We then use this new value of x as x₂ and repeat the process, using x₁ and x₂ instead of x₀ and x₁. We continue this process, solving for x₃, x₄, etc., until we reach a sufficiently high level of precision (a sufficiently small difference between x_n and x_n−1):

Convergence[edit]

The iterates ${\displaystyle x_n}$ of the secant method converge to a root of ${\displaystyle f}$, if the initial values ${\displaystyle x_0}$ and ${\displaystyle x_1}$ are sufficiently close to the root. The order of convergence is φ, where

${\displaystyle \phi =\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}\approx 1.618}$

is the golden ratio. In particular, the convergence is superlinear, but not quite quadratic.

This result only holds under some technical conditions, namely that ${\displaystyle f}$ be twice continuously differentiable and the root in question be simple (i.e., with multiplicity 1).

If the initial values are not close enough to the root, then there is no guarantee that the secant method converges. There is no general definition of 'close enough', but the criterion has to do with how 'wiggly' the function is on the interval ${\displaystyle [x_0,x_1]}$. For example, if ${\displaystyle f}$ is differentiable on that interval and there is a point where on the interval, then the algorithm may not converge.

Secant Method Code Matlab

Comparison with other root-finding methods[edit]

The secant method does not require that the root remain bracketed, like the bisection method does, and hence it does not always converge. The false position method (or regula falsi) uses the same formula as the secant method. However, it does not apply the formula on ${\displaystyle x_{n-1}}$ and ${\displaystyle x_{n-2}}$, like the secant method, but on ${\displaystyle x_{n-1}}$ and on the last iterate ${\displaystyle x_k}$ such that ${\displaystyle f(x_k)}$ and ${\displaystyle f(x_{n-1})}$ have a different sign. This means that the false position method always converges.

The recurrence formula of the secant method can be derived from the formula for Newton's method

by using the finite-difference approximation

Secant Method Formula

The secant method can be interpreted as a method in which the derivative is replaced by an approximation and is thus a quasi-Newton method.

If we compare Newton's method with the secant method, we see that Newton's method converges faster (order 2 against φ ≈ 1.6). However, Newton's method requires the evaluation of both ${\displaystyle f}$ and its derivative at every step, while the secant method only requires the evaluation of ${\displaystyle f}$. Therefore, the secant method may occasionally be faster in practice. For instance, if we assume that evaluating ${\displaystyle f}$ takes as much time as evaluating its derivative and we neglect all other costs, we can do two steps of the secant method (decreasing the logarithm of the error by a factor φ² ≈ 2.6) for the same cost as one step of Newton's method (decreasing the logarithm of the error by a factor 2), so the secant method is faster. If, however, we consider parallel processing for the evaluation of the derivative, Newton's method proves its worth, being faster in time, though still spending more steps.

Generalizations[edit]

Broyden's method is a generalization of the secant method to more than one dimension.

The following graph shows the function f in red and the last secant line in bold blue. In the graph, the x intercept of the secant line seems to be a good approximation of the root of f.

Computational example[edit]

Below, the secant method is implementation in the Python programming language.

It is then applied to find a root of the function f(x) = x² − 612 with initial points ${\displaystyle x_0=10}$ and ${\displaystyle x_1=30}$

Notes[edit]

1. ^Papakonstantinou, J., The Historical Development of the Secant Method in 1-D, retrieved 2011-06-29

See also[edit]

References[edit]

• Kaw, Autar; Kalu, Egwu (2008), Numerical Methods with Applications (1st ed.).
• Allen, Myron B.; Isaacson, Eli L. (1998). Numerical analysis for applied science. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 188–195. ISBN978-0-471-55266-6.

External links[edit]

• Secant Method Notes, PPT, Mathcad, Maple, Mathematica, Matlab at Holistic Numerical Methods Institute
• Weisstein, Eric W.'Secant Method'. MathWorld.