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Medical researcher discovers... integration?!

author: www-data

According to this paper, (DOI: 10.2337/diacare.17.2.152) a medical researcher has finally!1!! discovered a method not only for integrating curves, but for numerically approximating integrals using "rectangles and triangles"! Let's call this new method... aehm... the trapezoidal method Tai's Model! :-) From the abstract:

OBJECTIVE--To develop a mathematical model for the determination of total areas under curves from various metabolic studies. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS--In Tai's Model, the total area under a curve is computed by dividing the area under the curve between two designated values on the X-axis (abscissas) into small segments (rectangles and triangles) whose areas can be accurately calculated from their respective geometrical formulas.

2010-12-06 09:19 | www-datarootshell.ro | [/fun] | permanent link