Example 5.  Convergence: Monotone Decreasing  Find the solution to  .  Use the starting approximation    

Solution 5.

Since   for all   ,  the iteration    will converge to the fixed point  .  In this case,   is said to be an attractive fixed point.  

Animation 2.  ( Fixed Point Iteration  Fixed Point Iteration ).  Internet hyperlink.

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