How to choose a good intial guess for solving non linear function?

Asma Sbai @Asma_Sbai

06 June 2016 0 4K Report

Hi everyone,

My question is about the inital guess for resolving a non-linear equation f(x)=0

Is there any method to choose a good initial guess x ?

Thank you

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