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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Question on numerical integration
- Message-ID: <1263@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 14:50:29 GMT
- References: <1992Oct7.113401.1322@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Oct8.131346.16921@cs.mun.ca>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <1992Oct8.131346.16921@cs.mun.ca> cory@riemann.math.mun.ca (Cory C. Pye) writes:
- >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
- >
- > Try re-expressing the integrand using a substitution which transforms
- >the infinite limit to a finite number and leaves the finite number
- >finite. This will obviously depend on the integrand.
-
-
- This can be OK, but there are significant other approaches which are
- appropriate in different situations. In particular the Gauss-Laguerre
- quadrature rules are good for single-tailed integrals. (Gauss-Hermite
- is good for double sided).
-
- The book by Rabinowitz on numerical integration is full a fine advice on
- this subject.
-
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-
-