Re: A couple of curious outputs from Integrate[]
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- Subject: [mg13655] Re: A couple of curious outputs from Integrate[]
- From: Jean-Michel Collard <jcollard at iissun4.unil.ch>
- Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 14:14:31 +0300
- Organization: Universite de Lausanne
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James Lawry wrote: > > Here are a couple of Integrate[] commands that produce very odd results > in Mathematica 3.0 for Sparc. > > 1: Try > Integrate[Exp[-x Log[x]] Sin[x], {x, 0, Infinity}] > > This returns a value that contains x. This is silly, since it is a > definite integral and x is a dummy variable of integration. Version 2.2 > returned this integral unevaluated. > > 2: Make sure that there's nothing unsaved in your Mathematica session, > and try > > Integrate[Log[x]^2 Exp[-x], {x, 0, Infinity}] > > This produces more spectacular results in the Sparc notebook version of > Mathematica than in the text version, which just grumbles loudly for > several minutes before producing the answer. Version 2.2 of Mathematica > produced the answer in a few seconds. > > James Lawry. In[1]:= Integrate[Log[x]^2 Exp[-x], {x, 0, Infinity}] 2 2 Pi Out[1]= EulerGamma + --- 6 In[2]:= Integrate[Exp[-x Log[x]] Sin[x], {x, 0, Infinity}] Pi x Out[2]= Cos[----] Gamma[1 - x] Perfect. JMC