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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.solvers;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math3.util.FastMath;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.TooManyEvaluationsException;
+
+/**
+ * Implements the <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Bisection.html">
+ * bisection algorithm</a> for finding zeros of univariate real functions.
+ * <p>
+ * The function should be continuous but not necessarily smooth.</p>
+ *
+ */
+public class BisectionSolver extends AbstractUnivariateSolver {
+    /** Default absolute accuracy. */
+    private static final double DEFAULT_ABSOLUTE_ACCURACY = 1e-6;
+
+    /**
+     * Construct a solver with default accuracy (1e-6).
+     */
+    public BisectionSolver() {
+        this(DEFAULT_ABSOLUTE_ACCURACY);
+    }
+    /**
+     * Construct a solver.
+     *
+     * @param absoluteAccuracy Absolute accuracy.
+     */
+    public BisectionSolver(double absoluteAccuracy) {
+        super(absoluteAccuracy);
+    }
+    /**
+     * Construct a solver.
+     *
+     * @param relativeAccuracy Relative accuracy.
+     * @param absoluteAccuracy Absolute accuracy.
+     */
+    public BisectionSolver(double relativeAccuracy,
+                           double absoluteAccuracy) {
+        super(relativeAccuracy, absoluteAccuracy);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected double doSolve()
+        throws TooManyEvaluationsException {
+        double min = getMin();
+        double max = getMax();
+        verifyInterval(min, max);
+        final double absoluteAccuracy = getAbsoluteAccuracy();
+        double m;
+        double fm;
+        double fmin;
+
+        while (true) {
+            m = UnivariateSolverUtils.midpoint(min, max);
+            fmin = computeObjectiveValue(min);
+            fm = computeObjectiveValue(m);
+
+            if (fm * fmin > 0) {
+                // max and m bracket the root.
+                min = m;
+            } else {
+                // min and m bracket the root.
+                max = m;
+            }
+
+            if (FastMath.abs(max - min) <= absoluteAccuracy) {
+                m = UnivariateSolverUtils.midpoint(min, max);
+                return m;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}