Time for action – calculating the Gaussian integral
The Gaussian integral is related to the error
function (also known as erf in mathematics), but has no finite limits. It evaluates to the square root of pi. Let’s calculate the integral with the quad function.
Calculate the Gaussian integral with the quad function.
print “Gaussian integral”, np.sqrt(np.pi),integrate.quad(lambda x: np.exp(-x**2), -np.inf, np.inf)
The return value is the outcome and its error would be shown as follows:
Gaussian integral 1.77245385091 (1.7724538509055159, 1.4202636780944923e-08)
What just happened?
We calculated the Gaussian integral with the quad function.
