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- From: muyu@burn.Princeton.EDU (Muyu Guo)
- Subject: Re: Integration of Step function algorithm/code any?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.150316.21775@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:03:16 GMT
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- From article <1992Aug28.011918.22579@harlow.harvard.edu>, by job@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jeffrey Oliver Breen):
- > In article <1992Aug14.040957.16304@Princeton.EDU> muyu@burn.Princeton.EDU (Muyu Guo) writes:
- >>I am having trouble doing the integral using either qtrap
- >>or qsimp from Numerical Recipes:
- >>
- >> b
- >> /
- >> | f(x)dx, with a < 1, b > 2
- >> /
- >> a
- >> and f(x) = 1 (1 <= x <= 2)
- >> = 0 otherwise
- >>
- >>For example a=0, b=4 or the like the results were nonsense.
- >>
- >>Does anyone know if there is a good way to get thru this?
- >>Thanks a million for your attention.
- >
- > Since f(x) will be one from x=1 to x=2, and this range is included by
- > the a<1 and b>2 guarantee, and the function is zero everywhere else,
- > then the integral just becomes:
- >
- > 2
- > /
- > | 1 dx, otherwise known as 1. Is there a reason you were trying to
- > /
- > 1
- >
- > solve this numerically?
- > --
- > +-----------
- > | Jeffrey Oliver Breen Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
- > | (617) 495-7252 60 Garden St., Room B-340, MS 6, Cambridge, MA 02138
- > |
-
- I think I should rephrase the original question in the
- definition of f(x): f(x) = 1 ( a < x1 < x < x2 < b)
- = 0 otherwise
-
- I don't know a prior what is x1 and x2.
-
- So I was told better use an adaptive algorithm for this. Actually
- I can do it even with simple trap routine provided I don't want
- too much accuracy, say, relative error 1e-5 between successive
- approximate values of the integral.
-
- --
- Muyu Guo
-