
Variant of Two Real Parameters Chun-Kim’s Method Free Second 
Derivative with Fourth-order Convergence 
Rahmawati, Septia Ade Utami and Wartono 
Department of Mathematics, UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia 
Keywords:  Efficiency Index, Curvature, Omran’s Method, Newton’s Method, Newton-Steffensen’s Method.  
Abstract:  Newton’s method is one of the iterative methods that used to solve a nonlinear equation. In this paper, a new 
iterative method with two parameters was developed with variant modification of Newton’s method using 
curvature  and  second-order Taylor  series  expansion,  then its second derivative was  approximated  using 
equality of Newton-Steffensen’s and Halley’s Methods. The result of this study shows that this new iterative 
method has fourth-order convergence and involves three evaluation of functions with the efficiency index 
about 1.5874. In numerical simulation, we use several functions to test the performance of this new iterative 
method and the others compared iterative methods, such as: Newton’s Method (MN), Newton-Steffensen’s 
Method (MNS), Chun-Kim’s Method (MCK) and Omran’s Method (MO). The result of numerical simulation 
shows that the performance of this method is better than the others. 
1  INTRODUCTION 
Nonlinear equation is a mathematical representation 
that arises in the engineering and scientific problems. 
The number of assumptions and parameters used to 
construct  equations  will  affect  the  complexity  of 
nonlinear  equations  (Chapra,  1998).  Therefore, 
mathematicians  often  difficult  to  determine  the 
settlement  of  nonlinear  equations.  Generally,  the 
problem  arises  when  a  complicated  and  complex 
nonlinear equation cannot be solved using analytical 
method. We can use repetitive computing techniques 
to  find  an  alternative  solution  called  as  iterative 
method.  
Classical iterative method that widely used by the 
researcher to solve nonlinear equations is Newton's 
method with general form, 
.0)(,
)(
)(
'
'
1
 n
n
n
nn
xf
xf
xf
xx
          (1) 
Newton's method derived from cutting the first order 
Taylor’s series with quadratic order convergence and 
the  efficiency  index  about 
(Traub, 
1964). 
Lately, the researcher trying to develop iterative 
methods with cubic convergence order using several 
approaches, such as: adding new steps (Weerakoon 
and  Fernando,  2000)  and  (Omran,  2013),  second 
order Taylor series cutting (Traub, 1964),  quadratic 
function  (Amat  et  al.,  2003);  (Amat  et  al,  2008); 
(Melman,  1997);  (Sharma,  2005);  (Sharma,  2007), 
curvature  curve  (Chun  and  Kim,  2010),  and  the 
interpretation  of  two-point  geometry  (Ardelean, 
2013). 
Chun-Kim  iterative  method  (Chun  and  Kim, 
2010)  was  constructed  by  using  curvature,  this 
method express is, 
))(
'
1()(
'
2(
"
)(
))(
'
1)((2)(
"
)(
2*
1
22
1
nnnnn
nnnn
nn
xfxfxfxx
xfxfxfxf
xx
     (2)  
with 
 defined in equation (1). Equation (2) is an 
iterative method with a cubic convergence order with 
three evaluation functions, and the efficiency index is 
about 
 
  In  this  paper,  a  new  method  with  two  real 
parameters is generated from the development of the 
Chun-Kim Method (Chun and Kim, 2010) given in 
(2) using a second order Taylor sequence expansion. 
The new generated iterative method involves two real 
parameters  θ  and  λ,  this  condition  allows  us  to 
generate several other new iterative methods of either 
two, three or four by replacing the values of the real 
parameters. 
  Since the new iterative method that we generated 
still involves second derivative of its function, the use 
of the second derivative 
in the new iterative 
Rahmawati, ., Utami, S. and Wartono, .
Var iant of Two Real Parameters Chun-Kim’s Method Free Second Derivative with Fourth-order Convergence.
DOI: 10.5220/0008521203070313
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam (ICMIs 2018), pages 307-313
ISBN: 978-989-758-407-7
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