GATE Electrical Engineering (EE) 2017 Shift 1 Solved Paper

Question : 52 of 65

Marks: +1, -0

Only one of the real roots of f(x) = x⁶ – x – 1 lies in the interval 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 and bisection method is used to find its value. For achieving an accuracy of 0.001, the required minimum number of iterations is __________.