what is the meaning of simpson rule?

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goten77 · Answer

just a fast estimated way to find area under a curve

anonymous · Answer

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campbell_st · Answer

simpson's rule is used to approximate the area of irregular shapes...

campbell_st · Answer

Oh, its not just area under a curve it can be applied to any area... particularly land areas.

anonymous · Answer

what is the formula of simpson rule and how to derive?

campbell_st · Answer

here is a link to explain it all http://www.mathwords.com/s/simpsons_rule.htm

anonymous · Answer

how to kow the trancation error of simpson rule?

goten77 · Answer

Truncation error for (the non-composite) Trapezoid Rule is in general of
order
O
(
f
00
h
3
)
, for step size,
h
. Note that the second derivative for
f
(
x
)
is
not zero here, so we don’t expect to have a zero error.

goten77 · Answer

|dw:1361864184584:dw| is that spread out part... yes i copied and pasted