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Romberg integration

1.
Use the Maple command trapezoid to check your answers to the previous problem, and then use the last two estimates (with 4 and 8 intervals) to generate an improved estimate by Richardson's extrapolation.

2.
Calculate the absolute error of this estimate. What is the order of this error term (power of h)?



Allen B. Downey
1998-10-01