Hi, On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Dan Aldrich <daldr...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Can the user control either to print an approximate value or an exact value? > I tried to print the value of an integral under a bell curve: > > integrate(e^((-x^2)), x, -3, 3)
In addition to Simon's response, if you just want to perform a numerical integral (instead of a symbolic one, from which you then try to extract a number), you can use: sage: numerical_integral(e^(-x^2), -3, 3) (1.7724146965190428, 1.9677756052594506e-14) It returns a pair of real numbers. The first is a numerical approximation to the value of the integral, and the second is an upper bound on the error of this approximation. Type sage: numerical_integral? to find out more about this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- http://aghitza.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
