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Re: DiracDelta Function question

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  • Subject: [mg21242] Re: DiracDelta Function question
  • From: "John M. Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:28:03 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: CERN
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Bojan Bistrovic wrote:
> 
> Julian Francis wrote:
> > Why is mathematica unable to evaluate:
> > Integrate[DiracDelta[2 x - 1], {x, -Infinity, +Infinity}]
> >
> > Also interestingly:
> > Integrate[DiracDelta[2 x - 2], {x, -Infinity, +Infinity}]
> >
> > returns (1/2)
> >
> > I should have thought that the answer in both cases would be 1.
>>>>>>>>> SNIP <<<<<<<<<<<<<
> It's probably a bug in MS-Windows :-). My Linux version returns 1/2 in

On my Windows (NT) system, Mathematica 4.0 returns 1/2, quite correctly,
for both cases.  (The first one may have taken a few seconds longer
while Mathematica loaded something behind the scenes.)

John Jowett


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