Chapter 3, Approximating Integrals, Estimating Errors and Giving the Wrong Solution for a Deceptively Easy Problem

Ronald Cools

Figure 3.1 f_lambda(x) for several values of lambda
Figure 3.2 Error as a function of N for various values of lambda
Figure 3.3 I, Q₄, Q₆, Q₈ for various values of lambda
Figure 3.4 Reliability of the primitive error estimator
Figure 3.5 Naive automatic integration with req. error = 0.05

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