Lebesgue integral of a set (union)

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Let $E=[0, \pi]\cup[2\pi,3\pi]\cup\mathbb{Q}\subset \mathbb{R}$ and $f(x)=$sin$(x)$. Also, $\lambda$ is the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}$.

How to compute $\int_E f \ d \lambda$?

I used

$\int_E f \ d \lambda=\int_{0}^{\pi}$sin$(x) \ d \lambda +\int_{2\pi}^{3\pi}$sin$(x)\ d \lambda +\int_\mathbb{Q}$sin$(x)\ d \lambda $.

With $\int_{0}^{\pi}$sin$(x)\ d \lambda\approx0,08611$,

$\int_{2\pi}^{3\pi}$sin$(x)\ d \lambda\approx0,42924$ and

$\int_\mathbb{Q}$sin$(x)\ d \lambda =0$

So $\int_E f \ d \lambda = 0,08611+0,42924= 0,51535$

I'm not sure if this result is correct, since I didn't use the characteristic function or the simple function.

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Your method is fine but I winder how you got those numerical values. In fact $\int_0^{\pi}\sin\,x \, dx=2$ and $\int_{2\pi}^{3\pi}\sin\,x \, dx=2$. Therefore $\int_E \sin\,x \, dx=4$.