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Re: Integration..Constants

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• Subject: [mg5121] Re: Integration..Constants
• From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl>
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:04:47 -0500
• Organization: wolfram.com
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dennis Michael Winters wrote:
> 
> I have tried several times to perform an integration(math..2.2.3)B
> similar to the following.
> 
> In[1]:=Integrate[(ao+x)^-1 (bo^-2), x]
> 
> The results, however, are always incorrect:
> 
> Out[1]=-ln(-ao+x)  <---where the constant "ao" should be positive.
> 
> Note: The above is not the exact problem and solution. It is only an
> example of the type of problem I have been having with the program.
> <....>


Not clear what you actually did, since you put something in Out[1] other
than what Mathematica returned. In any case, I get the correct result
running version 2.2. Ditto for older versions, run on a NeXT machine.


In[2]:= $Version
Out[2]= Linux 2.2 (June 3, 1995)

In[3]:=  Integrate[(ao+x)^-1 (bo^-2), x] // InputForm
Out[3]//InputForm= Log[ao + x]/bo^2


Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research
danl at wolfram.com