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  2. Method of exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    The area bounded by one spiral rotation and a line is 1/3 that of the circle having a radius equal to the line segment length; Use of the method of exhaustion also led to the successful evaluation of an infinite geometric series (for the first time);

  3. Quadrature of the Parabola - Wikipedia

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    A parabolic segment is the region bounded by a parabola and line. To find the area of a parabolic segment, Archimedes considers a certain inscribed triangle. The base of this triangle is the given chord of the parabola, and the third vertex is the point on the parabola such that the tangent to the parabola at that point is parallel to the chord.

  4. Integral - Wikipedia

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    As another example, to find the area of the region bounded by the graph of the function f(x) = between x = 0 and x = 1, one can divide the interval into five pieces (0, 1/5, 2/5, ..., 1), then construct rectangles using the right end height of each piece (thus √ 0, √ 1/5, √ 2/5, ..., √ 1) and sum their areas to get the approximation

  5. Circular segment - Wikipedia

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    A circular segment (in green) is enclosed between a secant/chord (the dashed line) and the arc whose endpoints equal the chord's (the arc shown above the green area). In geometry , a circular segment or disk segment (symbol: ⌓ ) is a region of a disk [ 1 ] which is "cut off" from the rest of the disk by a straight line.

  6. Numerical integration - Wikipedia

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    Numerical integration has roots in the geometrical problem of finding a square with the same area as a given plane figure (quadrature or squaring), as in the quadrature of the circle. The term is also sometimes used to describe the numerical solution of differential equations .

  7. Line integral - Wikipedia

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    The trajectory of a particle (in red) along a curve inside a vector field. Starting from a, the particle traces the path C along the vector field F. The dot product (green line) of its tangent vector (red arrow) and the field vector (blue arrow) defines an area under a curve, which is equivalent to the path's line integral.

  8. Signed area - Wikipedia

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    The blue area above the x-axis may be specified as positive area, while the yellow area below the x-axis is the negative area. The integral of a real function can be imagined as the signed area between the x {\displaystyle x} -axis and the curve y = f ( x ) {\displaystyle y=f(x)} over an interval [ a , b ].

  9. Polar coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The integration region R is bounded by the curve r(φ) and the rays φ = a and φ = b. Let R denote the region enclosed by a curve r(φ) and the rays φ = a and φ = b, where 0 < b − a ≤ 2 π. Then, the area of R is [()].