rootfinding

English

Etymology

root +‎ finding

Noun

rootfinding (uncountable)

1. (mathematics) The process of finding the root of an equation.
   • 2002, Felipe Cucker, Joseph Maurice Rojas, Foundations of Computational Mathematics: Proceedings of the SMALEFEST 2000‎^[1]:

     The algorithms in 26, 28 yield (up to polylog factors) these nearly optimal precision and Boolean cost bounds for the worst case polynomial rootfinding.