Re: Integrating a function over a polygon
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- Subject: [mg42523] Re: Integrating a function over a polygon
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <luttrell at _removemefirst_westmal.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:19:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Check out the Calculus`Integration` add-on package.
You can do things like this:
NIntegrate[Boole[x > 0 && y > 0 && x + y < 1]*Exp[-x^2 - y^2],
{x, -Infinity, Infinity},
{y, -Infinity, Infinity}]
to obtain
0.366047
--
Steve Luttrell
West Malvern, UK
"Jagadeesh balam" <balam at engineering.ucsb.edu> wrote in message
news:belng1$gsk$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
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> I want a method to integrate a function, say a Gaussian pdf like
> exp(-x^2 - y^2) over a random convex polygon whose vertices are known.
> Has anyone done this before?
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> Thanks,
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> Jagadeesh
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