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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics Volume 2012, Article ID 348654, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/348654 Research Article A Two-Step Matrix-Free Secant Method for Solving Large-Scale Systems of Nonlinear Equations M. Y. Waziri,1, 2 W. J. Leong,1 and M. Mamat3 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Bayero University Kano, Kano 2340, Nigeria 3 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Malaysia Terengganu University, Kuala Lumpur 21030 Terengganu, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to M. Y. Waziri, mywaziri@ Received 9 November 2011; Revised 11 January 2012; Accepted 16 January 2012 Academic Editor: Renat Zhdanov Copyright q 2012 M. Y. Waziri et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We propose an approach to enhance the performance of a diagonal variant of secant method for solving large-scale systems of nonlinear equations. In this approach, we consider diagonal secant method using data from two preceding steps rather than a single step derived using weak secant equation to improve the updated approximate Jacobian in diagonal form. The numerical results verify that the proposed approach is a clear enhancement in numerical performance. 1. Introduction Solving systems of nonlinear equations is becoming more essential in the analysis of complex problems in many research areas. The problem considered is to find the solution of nonlinear equations: F x 0, 1.1