 Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2022/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability/continuous-mathematics/5/a/i/solution

Use Simpson's rule: the cubic exactness of Simpson's rule includes every quadratic integrand, so three function evaluations already give the exact answer. Thus the error is zero. For a general smooth integrand the corresponding composite Simpson's rule has error

O (N^{- 4})

in big O notation, but that bound is unnecessarily weak here.

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