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Consideration of the graph of a function shows that integration will give a result to rather greater % accuracy than the worst of the data: e.g. if a function is represented to 1% or less over the whole range, then the Simpson formula will generally give a result well within 1%.
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Moakes, A.J. (1973). Numerical Differentiation. In: Numerical Mathematics. Introductory Monographs in Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01843-7_10
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