How do I count how many iterations my root is in a smaller interval?

In my code I need to display in the command line how many of the iterations my root was in the smaller interval. I am not entirely sure what this means, but I'm hoping someone does and can give me a hand to work out what I'm missing. At the moment the command line displays the same number of iterations for both the iterations to the root and how many iterations the root was in the smaller interval.

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Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

In each iteration you have two intervals, [a,c] and [c,b]. Compute the size of both intervals and use the last if-else condition in your code to increment itc.

[Mischa Kim]

I used

 f = @(x) sqrt(x) - cos(x);
 [a,b,it,itc] = WB(f,0,15,0.25,1e-5)

with (please double-check)

function [a,b,it,itc] = WB(f,a,b,w,tol)
it=0;
itc=0;
fa=f(a);
fb=f(b);
if fa*fb>0
    error('Not guaranteed a root in interval [a,b]');
end
if abs(fa)<abs(fb)
    fprintf('The root is probably closer to a than b\n');
else
    abs(fa)>abs(fb);
    fprintf('The root is probably closer to b than a\n');
end
while (b-a)/2>tol
    c  = (1-w)*a+w*b;
%     fc = f(c);    % not really needed
%     if fc == 0
%         return
%     end
    x = abs(a-c);
    y = abs(c-b);
    if f(a)*f(c)<0
        b = c;
        if x<y
            itc = itc + 1;
        end
    else
        a = c;
        if y<x
            itc = itc + 1;
        end
    end
    it = it+1;
end
fprintf('Final interval: [%f, %f] with %d iterations and %d iterations where the root was in the smaller interval\n',a,b,it,itc)
end