% Bisection method example: use the bisection method to solve f(x) = 0 tic xL = 0; xH = 1; xroot = xH; e = 0.001; N = 0; converged_flag = 0; while converged_flag == 0 N = N+1; % step 2 xrootlast = xroot; xroot = 0.5*(xL + xH); % step 3 if f(xroot) == 0 converged_flag = 1; elseif f(xL)*f(xroot) < 0 xH = xroot; else xL = xroot; end % step 4 % if abs(f(xroot)) < e & abs(xroot - xrootlast) < e % converged_flag = 1; % end if abs(xroot - xrootlast) < e converged_flag = 1; end end xroot toc