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A Simple Example

Having supplied the definitions of the sums to Scientific WorkPlace as described in the previous section, we can evaluate the sums for any specified function f, interval tex2html_wrap_inline304 and any specified value of n. In this section we work out some approximations to the integral tex2html_wrap_inline428 We know, of course, that

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To work out the various approximating sums, we begin by pointing at the equation tex2html_wrap_inline432 and clicking on Define and New Definition.