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Numerical Area

As in the first part of this lab, we will use an ellipse with axes 6/5 and 1 as our basic example.



QUESTION 6: If you have not already done so, define
M := sqrt(1-(5*x/6)^2);
then issue the special Maple command:
gridplot2d(x=-2..2,y=-1..1, grid=[10,10],region=-M..M); (Hint: you may want to ``constrain'' the resulting image so that the horizontal and vertical scales are the same.)





QUESTION 7: The special Maple command leftbox2d computes the area by adding up the area of all boxes in a grid whose lower left corner is contained in a region.





Bob Hesse
Thu Feb 20 09:21:36 CST 1997