diff --git a/src/bisection-example-flexible.cc b/src/bisection-example-flexible.cc
index 61398aee5d5c558b94cdcb446cffdec6c0a96630..a3d06cdf0ff5bdc0613ed96188d7622dd32d0fd2 100644
--- a/src/bisection-example-flexible.cc
+++ b/src/bisection-example-flexible.cc
@@ -34,18 +34,6 @@ class SampleFunctional {
     return y * v + func_(v.two_norm()); // <1/2 Av - b,v> + H(|v|)
   }
 
-  // |dir|-times the directional derivative wrt dir/|dir|.
-  double pseudoDirectionalDerivative(const SmallVector x,
-                                     const SmallVector dir) const {
-    if (x == SmallVector(0.0))
-      return func_.rightDifferential(0) * dir.two_norm();
-
-    if (x * dir > 0)
-      return PlusGrad(x) * dir;
-    else
-      return MinusGrad(x) * dir;
-  }
-
   double directionalDerivative(const SmallVector x,
                                const SmallVector dir) const {
     double norm = dir.two_norm();
@@ -143,6 +131,18 @@ class SampleFunctional {
     return y;
   }
 
+  // |dir|-times the directional derivative wrt dir/|dir|.
+  double pseudoDirectionalDerivative(const SmallVector x,
+                                     const SmallVector dir) const {
+    if (x == SmallVector(0.0))
+      return func_.rightDifferential(0) * dir.two_norm();
+
+    if (x * dir > 0)
+      return PlusGrad(x) * dir;
+    else
+      return MinusGrad(x) * dir;
+  }
+
   SmallVector ModifiedGradient(const SmallVector x) const {
     if (x == SmallVector(0.0)) {
       SmallVector d = SmoothGrad(x);
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ void testSampleFunction() {
   SampleFunctional J(A, b);
 
   std::cout << J.directionalDerivative(b, b) << std::endl;
-  assert(J.pseudoDirectionalDerivative(b, b) == 10 + 2 * sqrt(5));
+  assert(J.directionalDerivative(b, b) == 2 * sqrt(5) + 2);
 
   SampleFunctional::SmallVector start = b;
   start *= 17;
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ void testTrivialFunction() {
   SampleFunctional J(A, b);
 
   std::cout << J.directionalDerivative(b, b) << std::endl;
-  assert(J.pseudoDirectionalDerivative(b, b) == 10);
+  assert(J.directionalDerivative(b, b) == 2 * sqrt(5));
 
   SampleFunctional::SmallVector start = b;
   start *= 17;