Calculate integral with an external formula

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I calculating an integral over a function that is defined in seperate m-file. My program looks like:
% main.m
mu_x=@(t) lx(t);
l_x = exp(-integral(@(t) mu_x(t),0,98));
% lx.m
function res=lx(x)
a=0.006782872;
b=5.44781E-08;
c=0.137849468;
if x>97
res = a+b*exp(c*97)+(x-97)*0.001;
else
res=a+b*exp(c*x);
end
I expect lx(x)=lx(98) => res=a+b*exp(c*97)+(x-97)*0.001; to be calculated but instead res=a+b*exp(c*x) is done. I want to keep this if-function in lx.m, is there anyway I can do this? Also, what is going wrong??

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David Goodmanson
David Goodmanson on 11 Oct 2017
Edited: David Goodmanson on 11 Oct 2017
Hi Lenovo,
Your 'if' check is not working correctly, because the res function takes vector input for x. One way to do the task is to create an index that shows whether or not x > 97:
x = 0:.01:120;
plot(x,lx(x)) % demo
function res=lx(x)
a=0.006782872;
b=5.44781E-08;
c=0.137849468;
res = zeros(size(x));
ind = x>97;
res(ind) = a+b*exp(c*97)+(x(ind)-97)*0.001;
res(~ind) =a+b*exp(c*x(~ind));
end
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David Goodmanson
David Goodmanson on 12 Oct 2017
I just plugged your expression
0.0067828+5.447812E-08*EXP(0.137849*97)+(98-97)*0.001
verbatim into Matlab, changed EXP to exp and got 0.0427, just like the demo plot in the posted answer gives and Excel gives. So I do not know where the .385 might be coming from.
Orongo
Orongo on 15 Oct 2017
Ok. Thanks. I still getting the problem and will close this discussion and open a new one because I think the problem is rippling.

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