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Table 11. Comparison of Methods for Example 10.
10 0
,1.fx
Numbers of iteration
n
x
NW 7 2.9e-39 5.4e-20
VCM 4 4.6e-105 3.0e-18
VSHM 4 0 8.3e-41
NR1 3 1.2e-38 1.1e-19
NR2 DIVERGE --- ----
Z Hu 5 4.5e-6 7.5e-35
FAJH 4 0 6.5e-39
(FAJH) is comparable with all the methods cited in the
above mentioned tables and gives better results even than
ninth orders method of Hu et al. [5]. With the help of the
technique and idea of this paper, one can develop higher-
order multi-step iterative methods for solving nonlinear
equations, as well as a system of nonlinear equations.
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