quadratic, was: Re: [Maxima] romberg or numerical integration
Subject: quadratic, was: Re: [Maxima] romberg or numerical integration
From: van Nek
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:36:29 +0200
Am 30 Jun 2006 um 11:25 hat Robert Dodier geschrieben:
> Jim,
>
> Numerical integration is a wheel that has been reinvented at
> various times in Maxima. Better to use the quadpack functions
> (translations from Fortran into Lisp) than romberg or quanc8
> (a Newton-Cotes algorithm).
>
> ? quad
>
Hello,
I typed in '? quad' and got information from 'simplification.info' about a function 'quadratic',
which is defined in 'share/simplification/functs.mac', but commented out.
Why was 'quadratic' commented out?
What to do? Cleaning up 'simplification.texi'?
Volker