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Created August 31, 2012 11:25
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Trapezoidal Rule for definite integrals
a = 0
b = 1
N = 500
area = 0
delta_x = (b - a)*1./N
def f(t):
return t**2
for i in range(N):
x = i*delta_x + a
area=area + 0.5*(f(x)+f(x+delta_x))*delta_x
print area
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