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Chapter 16: Numerical Integration

Introduction

If we do not know how to evaluate an integral exactly, we can use methods for evaluating them approximately. We describe some of these here.

 

Topics

16.1 Some Rules for Approximate Evaluation

       16.1.1 The Trapezoid Rule

       16.1.2 Simpson's rule

16.2 Geometric Interpretation

16.3 A Numerical Integrator