so, I'm bored.... what do you guys wanna talk about?
Mike?
Anyone???

 

What goes up and down without moving?

 

the sun

 

nope

the sun only looks like it's going up and down.

 

stocks

 

Try again.. Think Objects you see everyday.

 

o...how about the steps??

 

winnAr!!!

See Sigma Pie. He has your prize.

 

how bout.. when do you apply simpson's 1/3 rule and simpson's 3/8 rule?

 

the simpsons 1/3 is applied to parabolic functions, when there is a single interval (or for a subdivided interval) and yields a more accurate area than the trapezoidal rule (which is more accurate than the Riemann sum)...3/8 is used in conjunction with the 1/3 when you have an odd number of intervals...

 

haha.. very good hay.. how bout gaussian quadrature? what was your major btw?

 

the Guass-Legendre quadarture is used to obtain an even more accurate estimation by picking an optimal abscissa(s) (sp?) to evaluate the function f(x)...

 

hmm... did you happen to take numerical methods or analysis in college?

 

nope...majored in Biology