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In the last section we computed the area under the bell curve.

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The bell curve is an incredibly important tool

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in probability and statistics.

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In probability and statistics, the area under the whole curve

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just gets us started.

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Typically what we really want to know

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is the area under a portion of the curve.

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But there is no explicit formula for this integral.

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So what we do is make numerical approximations.

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In this section you'll learn how to compute

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integrals numerically.

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In fact, it turns out that most integrals,

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and solutions to differential equations,

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cannot be expressed with formulas.

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Numerical integration is the only way to compute them.

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