Lecture 5. 



The Bisection Algorithm

The ratio of the frequencies of two adjacent notes in the chromatic scale in an even tempered tuning system turns out to be
the unique positive root of the equation c12 - 2 = 0. Wikipedia has an entry on equal tempered tuning that you may find interesting.

This fact was used to motivate our study of root finding algorithms. We began with the Bisection algorithm. This algorithm is similar to a binary search. I then discussed some Matlab details for implementing this algorithm . We will continue with root finding algorithms, and look at Newton's method next. 

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