Re: Simple question or how Mathematica getting on my nerves.
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- Subject: [mg45840] Re: Simple question or how Mathematica getting on my nerves.
- From: bobhanlon at aol.com (Bob Hanlon)
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:50:33 -0500 (EST)
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NIntegrate[k[f], {f, 0.6214, 0.5242}] does not give the same result as N[Integrate[k[f], {f, 0.6214, 0.5242}]]. Both are calculations with the same inexact numbers as input so the resulting precision is determined by both the precision of the input as well as the sequence of internal operations on that input. My choice of words is perhaps not precise. That is why I tend to stick to just providing a Mathematica expression. Bob Hanlon In article <bv2f57$2r$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke) wrote: << Bob: In your reply to George you wrote ... > Although NIntegrate works without explicitly increasing the precision. > So the precision is impacted by the sequencing of the calculations. > > NIntegrate[k[f], {f, 0.6214, 0.5242}] > > -0.139838 Can you explain what you meant by "sequencing of the calculations"? I calculated the integral shown above after restarting Mathematica, and I obtained the answer shown above.