[scilab-Users] Finding an integration limit

Krzysztof Dmytrów ked1908 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 13:25:30 CEST 2008


> Since you are looking for the lower limit of integration to give a
> particular value of the integral, I suggest you first plot the value of the
> integral as a function of the lower bound and see where the answer lies.

Well, it looks like a good method, but the problem is that I wish to
use this value in further computations...

> Then you can decide how to find the "exact" value. In principle solving for
> the root as you suggest is fine, but there could be many or none and that
> could involve a lot of wasted useless computation, so first see (literally)
> what you are looking for.

In my case there is only one root of this expression.

Krzysiek



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