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Jupyter notebooks and other materials developed for the Columbia course APMA 4300
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Possible typo in quadrature lecture #7

Closed smeshoyrer closed 8 years ago

smeshoyrer commented 8 years ago

Under 'Newton-Cotes Quadrature,' the lecture contains the phrase: "evaluate f(x) at these points and exactly integrate the interpolating polynomial exactly."

was this intended?

mandli commented 8 years ago

You mean besides the poor English? Newton-Cotes assumes that the points are equally spaced across the partition and integrates the resulting interpolating polynomial exactly (the interpolating polynomial here) to generate the quadrature rule.

mandli commented 8 years ago

Typo fixed.