![Finding the root of a univariate function](https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/files/2011/08/t_polyroot.png)
At the SAS/IML Support Community, a SAS/IML programmer recently asked how to find "the root of a complicated equation." That's a huge question, and many papers and books have been written on the topic of root-finding, also known as finding the zeros of a function. Everyone has favorite techniques for