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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 / ii / Solution by

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Use composite Simpson's rule on this smooth, bounded one-dimensional interval. Its fourth derivative is bounded on the interval, so the error bound for composite Simpson's rule gives $O (N^{- 4})$ in big O notation as the number of function evaluations increases.

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