Re: Bug in NIntegrate[]?
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- Subject: [mg126898] Re: Bug in NIntegrate[]?
- From: Tomas Garza <tgarza10 at msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:31:35 -0400 (EDT)
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A quick and ready answer: use Piecewise.
In[1]:= NIntegrate[Piecewise[{{1,0<x<=1}}],{x,-2,1}]Out[1]= 1.
-Tomas
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:41:03 -0400
> From: vokaputs at gmail.com
> Subject: Bug in NIntegrate[]?
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> 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[]?
- From: GS <vokaputs@gmail.com>
- Bug in NIntegrate[]?