In this paper, two new families of eighth-order iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations are presented. These methods are developed by combining a class of optimal two-point methods and a ...

For decades, a math puzzle has stumped the smartest mathematicians in the world. x 3 +y 3 +z 3 =k, with k being all the numbers from one to 100, is a Diophantine equation that's sometimes known as ...