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The Symbolic Search for Iterations

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  In this section we show how a computer algebra package like MAPLE can be used to generate p-th order iterations that converge to from the functions . For a fixed initial value and a fixed p we define the sequence by

 

Of course, as it stands, although it is clear that converges to to p-th order, it is not very practical. The idea is to write the sequence recursively. Therefore there are two problems to solve:
  1. Find initial values .
  2. Get in terms of .
Table 1 contains some functions we defined in MAPLE and that we used to find and prove initial values and iterations.  
Table 1: MAPLE functions

Our function etaq utilizes the expansion due to Euler:

 

We are then able to effectively compute q-series expansions of , , . We have written MAPLE procedures to compute all the necessary functions.




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