Re: [sage-support] numerical evaluation of symbolic expressions

2010-07-04 Thread Burcin Erocal
Hi, On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 05:36:50 -0700 (PDT) dirkd wrote: > Why is evaluating this expression problematical? > > y1(x)=x^2;y2(x)=5-x; > a0=1;an=3;Delta=(an-a0)/n;p(k)=a0+(k-1/2)*Delta; > I(n)=sum(abs(y2(p(k))-y1(p(k)))*Delta,k,1,n); > N(I(10)) > > SAGE respons: > File "expression.pyx", line

[sage-support] numerical evaluation of symbolic expressions

2010-07-04 Thread dirkd
Why is evaluating this expression problematical? y1(x)=x^2;y2(x)=5-x; a0=1;an=3;Delta=(an-a0)/n;p(k)=a0+(k-1/2)*Delta; I(n)=sum(abs(y2(p(k))-y1(p(k)))*Delta,k,1,n); N(I(10)) SAGE respons: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "_sage_input_109.py", line 9, in open(