Re: Sigh...anyone care to explain this?
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- Subject: [mg14334] Re: [mg14294] Sigh...anyone care to explain this?
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at linmpi.mpg.de>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:28:40 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Selwyn,
this is clearly a bug. Here is a work around
In[4]:=
Needs["Calculus`Limit`"]
In[5]:=
Limit[Integrate[E^x/x,{x,1,y}],y->Infinity]
Hope that helps
Jens
-----Original Message-----
From: Selwyn Hollis <shollis at peachnet.campus.mci.net> To:
mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg14334] [mg14294] Sigh...anyone care to explain this?
>Sigh... anyone care to explain this?
>
>In: clearlyDivergentImproperIntegral =
>Integrate[E^x/x,{x,1,Infinity}]
> clearlyDivergentImproperIntegral // N
>
>Out: -ExpIntegralEi[1]
> -1.89512
>
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>Dr. Selwyn Hollis
>Associate Professor of Mathematics
>Armstrong Atlantic State University
>Savannah, GA 31419 USA
><http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis/>
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