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My favourite field-improvised planimeter consists of (a) tracing out the figures and cutting them out of paper, then (b) weighing the paper shapes with an analy
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My favourite field-improvised planimeter consists of (a) tracing out the figures and cutting them out of paper, then (b) weighing the paper shapes with an analytical balance and dividing out by the weight of a unit area's worth of paper.
- emmelaich 2y agoNot surprisingly, this technique is used for numerical integration of complex graphs.
- lupire 2y agoThat's Galileo's method of integration.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoMy advisor’s thesis had an entire section on that for computing complex integrals.