Re: [Gnuplot-info] Integration

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

--- pdupre
> Hello,
> 
> Can I calcaulte the following integral?
> \int _-\infty ^\infty exp (-t^2)/ ((x - t)**2 + 1) dt
> 
> (infty can be 5)
> 
> I Implemented the integration routine proposed on
> http://gnuplot.10905.n7.nabble.com/Integration-in-gnuplot-IS-possible-td11075.html
> Here I need pass the variable into the function to integrate (I can do it),
> but how do I initial the integration over the additional variable t?
> 
> Thank.
> 
I personally do not recomend to do integral calculation using gnuplot though you can do it with a tricky technique.

I recommend to use mathamatical softwares,
Python+SciPy, GNU Octave, Scilab and so on because they have sofisticated mathamatical tools that gnuplot never has.

Gnuplot is in princple a very nice plotting software but not a mathamatical software, I think.

Tatsuro