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19-Tanzanite
Jan 15, 2015 11:28 AM UTC

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

Alan

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Jan 15, 2015 11:43 AM UTC

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 ...

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23-Emerald I
Jan 15, 2015 5:21 PM UTC

you have to add in the slant!

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