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Re: Count Number of Iteration [FindRoot]

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• Subject: [mg121717] Re: Count Number of Iteration [FindRoot]
• From: Afolabicrystal <afolabicrystal at gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:07:29 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 26, 5:22 pm, "Oleksandr Rasputinov"
<oleksandr_rasputi... at hmamail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:48:32 +0100, Afolabicrystal  
>
> <afolabicrys... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello group,
>
> > I'm trying to find the roots of some functions using different
> > algorithms then compare with FindRoot. However, I'm using number of
> > iterations as my performance metric.
>
> > Is there a function in Mathematica that I can use to count number of
> > iterations automatically especially in functions requiring iterations?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> Most functions of this type accept the StepMonitor option, which can be 
> used to count or otherwise analyse the steps taken. Many detailed example s  
> of this are given in the documentation for StepMonitor, so I will refrain
>  from giving an example here.



Thank so much. found it very useful.