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Question: Different values of numerical integration

Question:Different values of numerical integration

Konstantin@ 215 Maple 2015
December 02 2015
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Dear friend,

Recently I noticed, that numerical integration returns different values for the same function.

For example the code

restart;
evalf(int((exp(x)*(4420*cos(4)*sin(4)-544*cos(4)^2+148147*exp(-1)-4225*cos(4)-215203)/(71825*exp(1)-71825*exp(-1))-exp(-x)*(4420*cos(4)*sin(4)-544*cos(4)^2+148147*exp(1)-4225*cos(4)-215203)/(71825*exp(1)-71825*exp(-1))+(32/4225)*cos(4*x)^2+(1/71825)*(4225+(2210*x-6630)*sin(4*x))*cos(4*x)+x^2+8434/4225)^2, x = 0 .. 1));

each time returns values

0.0005951015934
0.0005950850548
0.0005950974588
0.0005950960805
0.0005951297843 etc.

Maybe, evalf uses a stochastic algorithm for integration?
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