Comparison With Other Root-finding Methods
As noted in the introduction, inverse quadratic interpolation is used in Brent's method.
Inverse quadratic interpolation is also closely related to some other root-finding methods. Using linear interpolation instead of quadratic interpolation gives the secant method. Interpolating f instead of the inverse of f gives Muller's method.
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