Comparison of several adaptive Newton-Cotes quadrature routines in evaluating definite integrals with peaked integrands

  • Authors:
  • K. E. Hillstrom

  • Affiliations:
  • Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1970

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Abstract

This report compares the performance of five different adaptive quadrature schemes, based on Newton-Cotes (2N + 1) point rules (N = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), in approximating the set of definite integrals ∫1-1 (x2 + p2)-1 dx with relative accuracy &egr;.