c c Numerical Analysis: c The Mathematics of Scientific Computing c D.R. Kincaid & E.W. Cheney c Brooks/Cole Publ., 1990 c c Section 3.5 c c Example of Horner's ALgorithm c c c file: ex3s35.f c dimension a(0:4),b(-1:3) data (a(i),i=0,4) /-2.0,-5.0,7.0,-4.0,1.0/ data n,z0 /4,3.0/ c print * print *,' Horner Method example' print *,' Section 3.5, Kincaid-Cheney' print * c b(n-1) = a(n) do 2 k=n-1,0,-1 b(k-1) = a(k) + z0*b(k) 2 continue c print *,' The value of the polynomial at x=3 is',b(-1) c stop end