Topic 13.4: Newton-Cotes Rules (Error Analysis)

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It is beyond the scope of this course, but the errors associated with each of the methods are given in terms of the width between the points (h) and the width of the intervals being integrated over (b - a).

The symbol ξ is in the interval [a, b].

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