SecantSolver.java

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package org.apache.commons.math4.legacy.analysis.solvers;

import org.apache.commons.math4.legacy.exception.NoBracketingException;
import org.apache.commons.math4.legacy.exception.TooManyEvaluationsException;
import org.apache.commons.math4.core.jdkmath.JdkMath;

/**
 * Implements the <em>Secant</em> method for root-finding (approximating a
 * zero of a univariate real function). The solution that is maintained is
 * not bracketed, and as such convergence is not guaranteed.
 *
 * <p>Implementation based on the following article: M. Dowell and P. Jarratt,
 * <em>A modified regula falsi method for computing the root of an
 * equation</em>, BIT Numerical Mathematics, volume 11, number 2,
 * pages 168-174, Springer, 1971.</p>
 *
 * <p>Note that since release 3.0 this class implements the actual
 * <em>Secant</em> algorithm, and not a modified one. As such, the 3.0 version
 * is not backwards compatible with previous versions. To use an algorithm
 * similar to the pre-3.0 releases, use the
 * {@link IllinoisSolver <em>Illinois</em>} algorithm or the
 * {@link PegasusSolver <em>Pegasus</em>} algorithm.</p>
 *
 */
public class SecantSolver extends AbstractUnivariateSolver {

    /** Default absolute accuracy. */
    protected static final double DEFAULT_ABSOLUTE_ACCURACY = 1e-6;

    /** Construct a solver with default accuracy (1e-6). */
    public SecantSolver() {
        super(DEFAULT_ABSOLUTE_ACCURACY);
    }

    /**
     * Construct a solver.
     *
     * @param absoluteAccuracy absolute accuracy
     */
    public SecantSolver(final double absoluteAccuracy) {
        super(absoluteAccuracy);
    }

    /**
     * Construct a solver.
     *
     * @param relativeAccuracy relative accuracy
     * @param absoluteAccuracy absolute accuracy
     */
    public SecantSolver(final double relativeAccuracy,
                        final double absoluteAccuracy) {
        super(relativeAccuracy, absoluteAccuracy);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    protected final double doSolve()
        throws TooManyEvaluationsException,
               NoBracketingException {
        // Get initial solution
        double x0 = getMin();
        double x1 = getMax();
        double f0 = computeObjectiveValue(x0);
        double f1 = computeObjectiveValue(x1);

        // If one of the bounds is the exact root, return it. Since these are
        // not under-approximations or over-approximations, we can return them
        // regardless of the allowed solutions.
        if (f0 == 0.0) {
            return x0;
        }
        if (f1 == 0.0) {
            return x1;
        }

        // Verify bracketing of initial solution.
        verifyBracketing(x0, x1);

        // Get accuracies.
        final double ftol = getFunctionValueAccuracy();
        final double atol = getAbsoluteAccuracy();
        final double rtol = getRelativeAccuracy();

        // Keep finding better approximations.
        while (true) {
            // Calculate the next approximation.
            final double x = x1 - ((f1 * (x1 - x0)) / (f1 - f0));
            final double fx = computeObjectiveValue(x);

            // If the new approximation is the exact root, return it. Since
            // this is not an under-approximation or an over-approximation,
            // we can return it regardless of the allowed solutions.
            if (fx == 0.0) {
                return x;
            }

            // Update the bounds with the new approximation.
            x0 = x1;
            f0 = f1;
            x1 = x;
            f1 = fx;

            // If the function value of the last approximation is too small,
            // given the function value accuracy, then we can't get closer to
            // the root than we already are.
            if (JdkMath.abs(f1) <= ftol) {
                return x1;
            }

            // If the current interval is within the given accuracies, we
            // are satisfied with the current approximation.
            if (JdkMath.abs(x1 - x0) < JdkMath.max(rtol * JdkMath.abs(x1), atol)) {
                return x1;
            }
        }
    }
}