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Steps of the secant root finding method for a cubic polynomial. The secant method for numerical root finding of the functions

consists of the steps

, beginning with the two starting values

and

. The method can converge to a root or diverge.

steps — number of steps to be taken

— coefficients of the cubic polynomial

— starting values

Contributed by: Michael Trott

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Secant Root Finding Method