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Basic philosophy of equal-step methods

In considering equal step methods, our basic approach is that of approximating a function f(x) with a polynomial of at most degree N-1 , given N integration points. If our polynomial is of degree 1 , the function will be approximated with f(x)\approx a_0+a_1x .