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Relationship Between Definite Integrals and Series Sums
When a function
is continuous on the closed interval
:
where
and
.
This expresses the integral as the limit of a Riemann sum, which approximates the area under the curve by dividing the interval
into
subintervals and summing the areas of the corresponding rectangles.
The following methods express series as definite integrals :