.. index:: single: secant_root_finder(Function)
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**object**

``secant_root_finder(Function)``
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* ``Function`` - Object implementing ``univariate_function_protocol``.


Derivative-free secant root finder using two initial guesses.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(numerical_analysis(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-09-04

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Imports:**
|    ``public`` :ref:`root_finder(Function) <root_finder/1>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|     :ref:`options_protocol/0::check_option/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::check_options/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::default_option/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::default_options/1`  :ref:`root_finder_protocol/0::find_root/2`  :ref:`root_finder_protocol/0::find_root/3`  :ref:`root_finder_protocol/0::find_root/4`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::option/2`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::option/3`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::valid_option/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::valid_options/1`  

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Public predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`root_finder_protocol <root_finder_protocol/0>`, :ref:`bisection_root_finder(Function) <bisection_root_finder/1>`, :ref:`newton_root_finder(Function) <newton_root_finder/1>`