Re: NInegrate Bug
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg116467] Re: NInegrate Bug
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:36:12 -0500 (EST)
On 2/15/11 at 6:34 AM, tekolste at fastmail.net (Kurt TeKolste) wrote:
>Has there been a resolution of the NIntegrate bug?
>Apparently NIntegrate produces the negative of the right answer for
>integrations that start and end to the left of zero -- some of the
>time.
>(Cos[x] and Sin[x^2] get the wrong result, Sin[x] is good).
You didn't say what version you found this issue with. But based
on the results I get below with Cos[x] and Sin[x^2] it appears
the issue has is not present in version 8
In[1]:= NIntegrate[Cos[x], {x, -3/2, 3/2}]
Out[1]= 1.99499
In[2]:= Integrate[Cos[x], {x, -3/2, 3/2}]
Out[2]= 2 sin(3/2)
In[3]:= % // N
Out[3]= 1.99499
In[4]:= NIntegrate[Sin[x^2], {x, -3/2, 3/2}]
Out[4]= 1.55648
In[5]:= Integrate[Sin[x^2], {x, -3/2, 3/2}]
Out[5]= Sqrt[2*Pi]*FresnelS[3/Sqrt[2*Pi]]
In[6]:= % // N
Out[6]= 1.55648
In[7]:= Integrate[Sin[x^2], x]
Out[7]= Sqrt[Pi/2]*FresnelS[Sqrt[2/Pi]*x]
In[8]:= $Version
Out[8]= 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (November 6, 2010)