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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 / i / Solution 2026-10-25
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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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