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Horner's method
[ hawr-nerz ]
noun
, Mathematics.
- a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Horner's method1
1835–45; named after William G. Horner (died 1837), English mathematician who invented it
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