Soleimani, Farahnaz; Soleymani, Fazlollah; Shateyi, Stanford Some iterative methods free from derivatives and their basins of attraction for nonlinear equations. (English) Zbl 1264.65076 Discrete Dyn. Nat. Soc. 2013, Article ID 301718, 10 p. (2013). Summary: First, we make the P. Jain’s derivative-free method [Appl. Math. Comput. 194, No. 2, 527–533 (2007; Zbl 1193.65063)]. optimal and subsequently increase its efficiency index from 1.442 to 1.587. Then, a novel three-step computational family of iterative schemes for solving single variable nonlinear equations is given. The schemes are free from derivative calculation per full iteration. The optimal family is constructed by applying the weight function approach alongside an approximation for the first derivative of the function in the last step in which the first two steps are the optimized derivative-free form of Jain’s method. The convergence rate of the proposed optimal method and the optimal family is studied. The efficiency index for each method of the family is 1.682. The superiority of the proposed contributions is illustrated by solving numerical examples and comparing them with some of the existing methods in the literature. In the end, we provide the basins of attraction for some methods to observe the beauty of iterative nonlinear solvers in providing fractals and also choose the best method in case of larger attraction basins. Cited in 9 Documents MSC: 65H05 Numerical computation of solutions to single equations Citations:Zbl 1193.65063 Software:Mathematica PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{F. Soleimani} et al., Discrete Dyn. Nat. Soc. 2013, Article ID 301718, 10 p. (2013; Zbl 1264.65076) Full Text: DOI References: [1] A. Cordero, J. L. Hueso, E. Martínez, and J. R. Torregrosa, “A family of derivative-free methods with high order of convergence and its application to nonsmooth equations,” Abstract and Applied Analysis, vol. 2012, Article ID 836901, 15 pages, 2012. · Zbl 1246.65079 [2] F. 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