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Integration

We now turn attention to numerical integration. Recall from calculus that you can approximate a definite integral by dividing into N subintervals, say of equal length , and approximating the area under f by summing the areas of regular regions, e.g. rectangles. To approximate the height of a rectangle, you could use the value of f at the left or right endpoints.





Bruce Pitman
Wed Oct 11 12:23:54 EDT 1995