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Past exam of the numerical analysis course of the University of Oxford 2015 1 c ii Solution by
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For every uniform partition of an interval with panels, the quadrature nodes satisfy . Their composite trapezoidal rule quadrature weights agree, so the two sampled sine values cancel. If there is a node at zero its sine value is already zero. The constant term is integrated exactly, givingThis is symmetric trapezoidal exactness for odd functions, applied after adding a constant function so that the resulting definite integral is nonzero. It is exactness for this particular integrand, rather than a claim that every nonpolynomial function is integrated exactly.
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