I tested your function up to 100,000 with all the variations of f, and
they all worked after applying the patch for #847.
--Mike
On Nov 30, 2007 10:01 PM, john_perry_usm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks (I really like that!) but... While this approach worked well
> with the numbers given, it generated the same error on larger values
> of n.
>
> regards
> john perry
>
>
> On Nov 30, 3:58 pm, "Mike Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > > In Maple one typically write f:=x->x if one means a function instead
> > > of an expression. Doing something similar in SAGE makes a *lot* of
> > > sense, so I don't object inherently to the lambda notation, although
> > > the default Python syntax ("lambda") is not intuitive to an "ordinary"
> > > math student. A nice solution might be to introduce an intuitive SAGE
> > > construction for functions. -- My $.02 (US $ so not as much lately as
> > > it used to be...)
> >
> > Actually, now that I think about it, there is a "nice" way to create
> > the function in Sage which I completely forgot about.
> >
> > sage: f(x) = x
> > sage: Midpoint_Riemann_Sums(0,5,f,1000)
> > 12.5250000000000
> >
> > I also put a patch up that make Sage work when you use "f = x". It
> > should get into the next release,
> >
> > --Mike
>
> >
>
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