Implementing the Trapezoidal Method

Now let's come up a C implementation for the trapezoidal method, using the formula

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as our basis. Suppose that we want to implement a function trapezoid that will numerically integrate a function integrand that is defined elsewhere in the program. What should the prototype for trapezoid look like?

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The summation that we've come up with suggests a while loop. What should the while loop do?

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Try to come up with an implementation of trapezoid before looking at our solution.

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Christopher R. Johnson
Hamlet Project
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah