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Historically and practically one of the major problems discussed by mathematicians has been how to work out the areas of various figures. One way to approach this problem is to consider the area under a given curve. Let y = f(x) be a function with Fig. 3.1 as its graph between x = a and x = b. We wish to find the area of the region A. Clearly if f(x) is constant, say c for some number c, then the graph is as shown in Fig. 3.2, and the area under the graph is the rectangle whose area is (b - a)c.
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© 1984 A. R. Camina and G. J. Janacek
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Camina, A.R., Janacek, G.J. (1984). Integration. In: Mathematics for Seismic Data Processing and Interpretation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7767-2_3
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