Expert: Sherman D. - 2/14/2006

Question
Goodday,
Please how am i supposed to find the area below the curve y = 1/x from x = 0 to x = 2.
Thanking you in advance.

Answer
using http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Log2/log2.html

distance : area
1 : log(2)
.5 : log(2)
.25 : log(2)
.125 : log(2)
.0625 : log(2)
.03125 : log(2)
.015625 : log(2)
.0078125 : log(2)
etc...

http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Log2/log2.html

I guess the answer would be something like this ((1/2)^(x - 1))log(2), whereas "x" stands for how many times it will take you until you reach 0, and since you can never reach zero, THIS PROBLEM HAS NO REAL SOLUTION.

You cannot find the area, since the problem never reaches zero.

if you go right, the inverse of that would work. In otherwords, you half as you go from 1 to 0 and double as you go from 1 to x.