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Now I'm a 16-year old high school student, and as some of you might know, i like math :) I have been studying the integration by riemann sums lately, and i truly love the logical concept. So I decided to create my own formula for calculation of graph curve length (without looking at the present solutions - this i consider cheating, and i only do this if i find the task impossible .. :) and after 30 min i ended up with a formula, that works (i think). I can use it to calculate curve lengtt manually by doing it in hand, and choose a certain number of rectangles n=some number. But after i confirmed that it works, i wanted to evaluate the limit for n-->infinity, so the true length shone through. This was my original thought with the formula .. I ended up hitting a dead end though. I am simply not able to evaluate the limit...
I don't know if it's because my skills are good enough, or if it's because it's impossible to do so :) So i need a bit of help. This is how the formula looks like;
(it's enclosed in the word document) - i would appreciate if anyone would write in a post, or tell me how to write in the post .. :) It's annoying for you to download the formula
I have tried evaluating for a both a linear function and a non-linear .. I can't seem to find the limit. Maybe it doesn't exist? Maybe my formula is completely wrong? I don't know :P
thx
I don't know if it's because my skills are good enough, or if it's because it's impossible to do so :) So i need a bit of help. This is how the formula looks like;
(it's enclosed in the word document) - i would appreciate if anyone would write in a post, or tell me how to write in the post .. :) It's annoying for you to download the formula
I have tried evaluating for a both a linear function and a non-linear .. I can't seem to find the limit. Maybe it doesn't exist? Maybe my formula is completely wrong? I don't know :P
thx