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THE formulæ which Mr. Percival gives in NATURE for March 18 for approximate integration are well known, but there are one or two points in connection with them which are frequently overlooked, especially by writers of books on mathematics for engineers.
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01 April 1920
—On p. 138 of NATURE of April 1, col. 1, line 15 from the bottom of the page, bx should bebx3/2 in the equation y=ax1/2 + bx3/2. The fractional index was broken during paging of the issue.
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DALE, J. Some Methods of Approximate Integration and of Computing Areas. Nature 105, 138 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105138a0
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