26 Feb '08 23:22>
can somebody walk me through it please. Also forgot how to take the limit of a series also.
Originally posted by eldragonflyNo. Simpsons rule is an approximation for the integeral of a line. Although this may be an application I simply haven't heard of.
i think it's related to finding the area of a circle via an integration, not really sure.
Originally posted by eldragonflywhen talking about finding the limit of a series (i'll assume it's in closed form, with n incrementing from some constant to infinity), you will be trying to figure out if the series diverges to infinity or converges to some constant.
can somebody walk me through it please. Also forgot how to take the limit of a series also.
Originally posted by Swlabrthanks.
No. Simpsons rule is an approximation for the integeral of a line. Although this may be an application I simply haven't heard of.
It states that the integeral of a line f(x) between the points a and b is approximatly equal to [(b-a)/6]*[f(a)4*f([a+b]/2)+f(b)]. It has precision 3 (is exact for polynomials of degree 3, e.g. x^3), even though intuitively it i ...[text shortened]... h sub-interval to get something that's awfully long to type out. It is, however, on wikipedia.
Originally posted by AetheraelNo that's fine more than sufficient, again thank you.
when talking about finding the limit of a series (i'll assume it's in closed form, with n incrementing from some constant to infinity), you will be trying to figure out if the series diverges to infinity or converges to some constant.
A prerequisite for convergence is that the general term of the series - the general expression in closed form that is be ...[text shortened]... cuments, or wikipedia entries) that would be more useful than awkward forum notation 🙂