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- From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
- Subject: Re: Question on numerical integration
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.182915.17622@wdl.loral.com>
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- Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
- References: <1992Oct7.113401.1322@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:29:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct7.113401.1322@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> vhansen@ipfs.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Wolfgang von Hansen) writes:
- >How can one calculate things like
- >
- > a oo
- >Int f(x) dx or Int f(x) dx
- >-oo a
- >
- >numerically. I know how to do such things with finite limits,
- >but I've got no idea how to deal with infinite limits.
- >
- >Thanks in advance, Wolfgang
-
- Take the int(a,oo)f(x)dx case. If the integral exists is is easy to
- show from the usual defintion of infinite limits that that for a given
- small e > 0 there exists a X > a such that int(X,oo)f(x)dx < e. So let e be the
- error in the answer you are willing to allow, compute X and evaulate
- int(a,X)f(x)dx.
-
- --
- Mark Biggar
- mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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