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Getting Natural With Sine (Posted on 2009-05-19) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Evaluate:

pi/2
sin y*ln(sin y) dy
0

where, ln y denotes the natural logarithm of y.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
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Some Thoughts numerical integration with computer--but what is this number? | Comment 1 of 3

DEFDBL A-Z
pi = ATN(1) * 4
incr = .0000001#
FOR y = incr / 2 TO pi / 2 STEP incr
 t = t + SIN(y) * LOG(SIN(y))
NEXT
PRINT t * incr

Successively changing the increment from .0001 to .0000001 by dividing by 10 each time produces

-.3068528238160199
-.3068528194936749
-.3068528194417146
-.3068528194866375

I have the feeling that the changeover from decreasing to increasing in the last instance is the result of more terms being added, and therefore producing lower, rather than higher, accuracy. On that basis, I'd limit the quoted value accuracy to -.3068528194....

UBASIC, with higher precision can be used:

10         Incr=0.0000001
15          Y=Incr/2
20          loop
30               T=T+sin(Y)*log(sin(Y))
35               Y=Y+Incr
36               if Y>#pi/2 then goto 50
40          endloop
50         print T*Incr

giving -0.306852819440061945, so I would feel safe with the accuracy of -0.30685281944.

 


  Posted by Charlie on 2009-05-19 12:28:29
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