bisection method

English

Noun

bisection method (plural bisection methods)

  1. (mathematics) A root-finding method that applies to any continuous functions for which one knows two values with opposite signs, and consists of repeatedly bisecting the interval defined by these values and then selecting the subinterval in which the function changes sign, and therefore must contain a root.
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