In response to the criticisms raised by Taseli [preceding Comment, Phys. Rev. E 56, 1280 (1997)], we apply the method proposed by us [Phys. Rev. E 53, 1954 (1996)] to the confined quartic and sextic anharmonic potentials and show that our algorithm provides reasonable numerical estimates for the eigenvalues of one-dimensional quantum problems under Dirichlet’s boundary conditions. The results obtained are in acceptable (ten digits) agreement with those reported by Taşeli.

• Received 20 January 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.56.1283