While there are many techniques for finding roots, two of the most commonly used are Newton's method and Brent's method.

Brent's parents, Oscar Leroy ( Eric Peterson ) and Emma Leroy ( Janet Wright ), are lifetime residents of Dog River.

The town also has " Brent's " gas station, which is closed on Sundays and stays open half a day on Wednesdays.

It has been acknowledged that Brent's character was deliberately made more sympathetic as the show progressed.

Due to the popularity of the show, Brent's persona has entered British office-life culture as the epitome of the " bad boss ".

Replacing Simmons, Watson and Arnold were guitarists Brent " The Doctor " Doerner and Paul Hackman, who would both remain with Helix through the 80s, and drummer Brian Doerner, Brent's twin brother.

Broken-hearted by Brent's death, Carreen never truly gets over it and years later joins a convent.

Its first recorded use in English is from 1620, in Nathaniel Brent's translation of Paolo Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent: " To this citation he made answer by a Manifesto " ( p. 102 ).

The station is commonly referred to as " Brent's Texaco " even though Texaco plays no part in the store's operation anymore.

* Mrs. Clackett ( Dotty ): Housekeeper for the Brent's home in England.

* Flavia Brent ( Belinda ): Phillip Brent's wife.

* Burglar ( Selsdon ): Old man in his seventies, breaking into the Brent's home.

Creston is located at the foot of Brown's Butte, a gently sloping hill in the heart of what was historically known as the Brent's country, one of the richest farming areas in Lincoln County.

As Taylor tries to reason with Zaius, Zaius condemns him and Ursus repeatedly shoots Taylor with his pistol ; Brent's rifle empties and the gorillas kill him.

Brent's method is a combination of the bisection method, the secant method and inverse quadratic interpolation.

At every iteration, Brent's method decides which method out of these three is likely to do best, and proceeds by doing a step according to that method.

When forced to solve for vega numerically, it usually turns out that Brent's method is more efficient as a root-finding technique.

When used as a given name today, Brent is sometimes a short form of Brenton, but this was probably not the original inspiration for Brent's use as a given name, since Brenton's own regular use as a first name came many years after Brent was established in that role.

* Richard Henry " Hank " Yarbo ( Fred Ewanuick ) is Brent's perpetually unemployed best friend and most likely candidate for Dog River's village idiot.

* Oscar Leroy ( Eric Peterson ) is Brent's angry, stubborn and occasionally senile elderly man stereotype father and former owner of Corner Gas, now retired.

* Emma Leroy ( Janet Wright ) is Brent's mother, and the brains and muscle of the family.

Comedian Mike Wilmot played Carl Vawn, Brent's snobby cousin.

Saskatchewan-born musician Colin James appears as a local musician ( although it is implied that Colin James ' character really is Colin James ) who performs an audition in Brent's garage.

The rock group The Tragically Hip appear as " local kids " who practise in Brent's garage.

* Brent's T. V.

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

Underlying these conceptions of mimesis are certain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary human experience which require some exposition before the main argument can proceed.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.

The main subgross anatomical features of the lungs of various mammals are presented.

Broad and Ross have lately contended that this fitness is one of the main facts of ethics, and I suspect they are right.

Accounting procedures which continue to charge a disproportionate overhead and warehouse expense to the main store make the branches seem more profitable than they are.

We are quite convinced that one of the main hopes for the future depends upon the informal contacts and exchanges of ideas between individuals.

Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.

Thus, the three main categories of antisubmarine warfare operations are defense of shipping, defense of naval forces, and area defense.

At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.

When all of the rinse water has passed from the reservoir to the tubs the main drains are lowered to permit complete draining of the tubs.

Discussed below are some of the main things to look for when you select a part-time farm.

And I suggest further that the main cause of the trouble we are in has been the failure of American policy-makers, ever since we assumed free world leadership in 1945, to deal with this problem realistically and seriously.

Rather, meat and potatoes, sugar, and dairy products are the main sources of carbohydrate, protein, oils, and fats.

Seeds are a main source of starch for industrial and food use in many parts of the world.

You will visit a few churches that are exceptional yet often by-passed, a magnificent square, the main shopping district, the Spanish Steps, and the lovely Pincian Gardens.

Admitting that main streets and the central business district should have priority, the Councilman said it is also essential that small shopping areas `` not be overlooked if our small merchants are to survive ''.

The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

The main poison-producing glands, the paratoids, produce the neurotoxin bufotoxin and are located behind the ears of certain frogs and toads and behind the eyes of salamanders.

Some frogs and toads are toxic, the main poison glands being at the side of the neck and under the warts on the back.