rootfinding

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

root +‎ finding

Noun[edit]

rootfinding (uncountable)

  1. (mathematics) The process of finding the root of an equation.
    • 2002, Felipe Cucker, Joseph Maurice Rojas, Foundations of Computational Mathematics: Proceedings of the SMALEFEST 2000‎[1]:
      The algorithms in 26, 28 yield (up to polylog factors) these nearly optimal precision and Boolean cost bounds for the worst case polynomial rootfinding.
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