On 3/23/11 7:57 AM, michael.kogan at gmx.net wrote:
> Ray, Robert, thanks for your suggestions!
>
> Unfortunaly I'm quite new to Maxima and currently I'm able to use it as
> a kind of a big calculator and plotter only. I've tried to find out how
> your code works, but didn't make much progress in this.
>
> As I see "quad_qags" is some kind of alternative to "integrate" with
> different integration mechanisms and a bit different output. But what
> is the [1] after it?
quad_qags returns a list, and the first element of the list is the
estimated value of the integral. "? quad_qags" will give you more
information.
Ray