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Correct implementation of Laguerre's method #27

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@rootmos rootmos commented Jun 14, 2024

As it stands the suggested implementation of Laguerre's method is incorrect. This is the expression from in the cited source (PC13).

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Thank you for this! The square root is definitely something I missed. Thanks also for fixing the typo with the extra left parentheses. I actually think it's clearer that the ^2 applies to f'(\chi_i) and not just \chi if there are extra parentheses added. What do you think?

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@bryanwweber bryanwweber merged commit 3e51bd7 into bryanwweber:main Jun 16, 2024
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rootmos commented Jun 17, 2024

Agreed, this looks much clearer 👍

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