On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I guess it depends on what the questioner wants.
>
> If it is a definite integral with an exact answer (say pi) and they
> want to evaluate it in floating point to arbitrary precision then
>
> sage: RealField?
>
> explains how. If there have a defnite integral which perhaps cannot be
> computed exactly but they want an approximation to a level of
> precision that they set themsleves then
>
> sage: numerical_integral?
>
> explains how.

numerical_integral only does double precision at most.  Pari (which is
in sage) has the capability to do arbitrary precision numerical
integration, but this is not nicely wrapped in Sage.

William

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