Horner's method

[ hawr-nerz ]

noun

, Mathematics.

1. a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Horner's method¹

1835–45; named after William G. Horner (died 1837), English mathematician who invented it

Example Sentences

Horner's method begins to be introduced at Cambridge: it was published in 1820.

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It was somewhat more than twenty years after I had thus heard a Cambridge tutor show sense of the true place of Horner's method, that a pupil of mine who had passed on to Cambridge was desired by his college tutor to solve a certain cubic equation—one of an integer root of two figures.

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In a minute the work and answer were presented, by Horner's method.

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"There is the answer, Sir!" said my pupil, greatly amused, for my pupils learnt, not only Horner's method, but the estimation it held at Cambridge.

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