A fourth order iterative method for solving nonlinear equations

The present paper illustrates an iterative numerical method to solve nonlinear equations of the form f(x) = 0, especially those containing the partial and non partial involvement of transcendental terms. Comparative analysis shows that the present method is faster than Newton-Raphson method, hybrid iteration method, new hybrid iteration method and others. Cost is also found to be minimum than these methods. The beauty in our method can be seen because of the optimization in important effecting factors, i.e. lesser number of iteration steps, lesser number of functional evaluations and lesser value of absolute error in final as well as in individual step as compared to the other methods. This work also demonstrates the higher order convergence of the present method as compared to others without going to the computation of second derivative. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.