Steffensen's method accelerates:
Accelerating Convergence
Aitken's Δ² method and Steffensen's method for accelerating linearly convergent sequences.
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Aitken's Δ²: p̂ₙ = pₙ − (pₙ₊₁ − pₙ)² / (pₙ₊₂ − 2pₙ₊₁ + pₙ).
Example 7
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Steffensen: apply Aitken to fixed-point iterates every third step: quadratic convergence without derivatives.