Talk:Steffensen's method

Max iterations

In the ATS and RATFOR samples and most of the others derived from them, the loop in the steffensen_aitken method appears to run from 1 to maxiter - 1
E.g., in the ATS sample:

    ...
    var iter : int = 1          (* iteration counter *)
  in
    while (abs (p - p0) > tol andalso iter < maxiter)
      begin
        p0 := p;
        p := aitken (f, p0);
        iter := iter + 1
      end;
      ...

I was just wondering if that should be iter <= maciter (or var iter : int = 0) in the while loop?
Or am I missing something?

The results appear unaffected either way (to 6 decimal places)

--Tigerofdarkness (talk) 21:47, 5 June 2023 (UTC)