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Within Vinony's link graph, Simpson's rule is referenced by 92 other articles, and connects out to trapezoidal rule, statistics and Johannes Kepler.
It is catalogued under topics including Integral calculus, Numerical analysis and Numerical integration.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- Newton–Cotes formula
- Named after
- Bonaventura Cavalieri
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Encyclopedic overview
Simpson's rule can be derived by approximating the integrand f (x) (in blue) by the quadratic interpolant P(x) (in red).
An animation showing how Simpson's rule approximates the function with a parabola and the reduction in error with decreased step size An animation showing how Simpson's rule approximation improves with more subdivisions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simpson's rule” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.