Re: Bug in NIntegrate[]?
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- Subject: [mg126887] Re: Bug in NIntegrate[]?
- From: Gerry Flanagan <gvflan at midcoast.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:27:46 -0400 (EDT)
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Good reason to use Piecewise
f[x_] := Piecewise[{{0, x < 0 || x > 1}, {1, True}}]
Integrates correctly.
Gerry F.
On 6/15/2012 3:41 AM, GS wrote:
> I define the function f[x] as follows:
>
> f[x_] := 0 /; x< 0 || x> 1;
> f[x_] := 1
>
> It is zero outside of the interval [0,1]. This can be verified by plotting
> Plot[f[x], {x, -1, 2}]
>
> Now I integrate it from -1 to 2:
> In[270]:= NIntegrate[f[x], {x, -1, 2}]
> Out[270]= 3.
>
> The result should be 1, but it is 3. Clearly Mathematica ignores the fact that f[x] is zero outside of [0,1].
>
> This caused a lot of headache for me recently when I encountered such behavior in one of my research code.
> GS
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- Bug in NIntegrate[]?