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  2. Vincenty's formulae - Wikipedia

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    Vincenty suggested a method of accelerating the convergence in such cases (Rapp, 1993). An example of a failure of the inverse method to converge is (Φ 1, L 1) = (0°, 0°) and (Φ 2, L 2) = (0.5°, 179.7°) for the WGS84 ellipsoid. In an unpublished report, Vincenty (1975b) gave an alternative iterative scheme to handle such cases.

  3. Fixed-point iteration - Wikipedia

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    In numerical analysis, fixed-point iteration is a method of computing fixed points of a function.. More specifically, given a function defined on the real numbers with real values and given a point in the domain of , the fixed-point iteration is + = (), =,,, … which gives rise to the sequence,,, … of iterated function applications , (), (()), … which is hoped to converge to a point .

  4. Explicit and implicit methods - Wikipedia

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    In the vast majority of cases, the equation to be solved when using an implicit scheme is much more complicated than a quadratic equation, and no analytical solution exists. Then one uses root-finding algorithms, such as Newton's method, to find the numerical solution. Crank-Nicolson method. With the Crank-Nicolson method

  5. Inclusion–exclusion principle - Wikipedia

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    The principle can be viewed as an example of the sieve method extensively used in number theory and is sometimes referred to as the sieve formula. [ 4 ] As finite probabilities are computed as counts relative to the cardinality of the probability space , the formulas for the principle of inclusion–exclusion remain valid when the cardinalities ...

  6. Newton–Cotes formulas - Wikipedia

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    It is assumed that the value of a function f defined on [,] is known at + equally spaced points: < < <.There are two classes of Newton–Cotes quadrature: they are called "closed" when = and =, i.e. they use the function values at the interval endpoints, and "open" when > and <, i.e. they do not use the function values at the endpoints.

  7. Explicit formula - Wikipedia

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    Explicit formula can refer to: Closed-form expression, a mathematical expression in terms of a finite number of well-known functions; Analytical expression, a ...

  8. Secant method - Wikipedia

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    The secant method is an iterative numerical method for finding a zero of a function f.Given two initial values x 0 and x 1, the method proceeds according to the recurrence relation

  9. Regula falsi - Wikipedia

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    The convergence rate of the bisection method could possibly be improved by using a different solution estimate. The regula falsi method calculates the new solution estimate as the x-intercept of the line segment joining the endpoints of the function on the current bracketing interval. Essentially, the root is being approximated by replacing the ...