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From: austern@csa2.lbl.gov (Matt Austern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Numerical integration on the hp48SX
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Date: 12 Feb 91 21:35:20 GMT
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In article <3949@rwthinf.UUCP>, berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg) writes...
>I was wondering, in some sales magazine from HP it said that the HP48SX
>is not capable of numerical intergration (contrary to the HP28S).
> 

As many people have probably said in email, the hp48 does have numerical
integration.  (A very useful feature!)  

Here's my question: does anyone know what algorithm it uses?  I'm guessing
something like Romberg integration, with control over accuracy but with
uniformly sized intervals.