fluctuations can be better characterized by its samples when these variations are spread out over most of the interval of integration than if they are confined to only a small fraction of the interval. (These two situations are shown in the following two illustrations.) Considering the variations or fluctuation as a type of oscillation in the function, the criterion of interest is the ratio of the period of the oscillations to the width of the interval of integration: the larger this ratio, the more quickly the calculation will finish, and the more reliable will be, the resulting approximation.

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Printed Date : 2003/4/24

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