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- From: vm0h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent J. Matsko)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: help me, please
- Message-ID: <IefpATy00VpOMAoFQ6@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 05:52:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.IefpATy00VpOMAoFQ6
- References: <1992Sep9.135741.4324@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Organization: Doctoral student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Sep9.135741.4324@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
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- It seems that the integral you seek is just another way of getting the
- value of the volume of the n-dimensional simplex with one vertex at the
- origin, and n vertices which have (n-1) zeroes and one 1. In
- 2-dimensions, this is just a 45-45-90 triangle with vertices (0,0),
- (0,1), and (1,0). Area = 1/2.
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- An induction argument to compute this volume for any n is straightforward.
-
- Vince
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