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19-Tanzanite
January 15, 2015

Your expression for S only adds up vertical heights, not slant heights.

Alan

1-Visitor
January 15, 2015

Shouldn't that be equivalent, when going to the limit ?

Back to something more academic, to me, it is like the trapezoidal rule VS forward or backwards rectangle method: when going to the limit, shouldn't you end up with the same result ?

Damn, university was such a long time ago ...

23-Emerald I
January 15, 2015

you have to add in the slant!