Cavalieri's quadrature formula (source code)

= Cavalieri's quadrature formula
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Cavalieri's quadrature formula, named after the Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri, is a mathematical principle used to compute the area under a curve. The formula is particularly useful in the context of integral calculus and can be seen as a way to approximate the area under a function.