Re: Re: Solving difficult integral a follow up
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- Subject: [mg18749] Re: [mg18665] Re: [mg18620] Solving difficult integral a follow up
- From: me <me at talmanl1.mscd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:36:59 -0400
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Richard Gass wrote: > I get the same result that you do when I try this. If I look at the > expression I find that it is full of terms like (-1)^(1/5), (-1)^(2/5) and > so on. I think that they arise because the "Wrong" root has been picked by > the integration routines . If for example we try Solve[x^5==1] we get five > solutions only one of which is real. I think the integration routines have > picked up one of the complex roots instead of the real root. I think you've hit the nail squarely on the head. --Lou Talman Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Campus Box 38 Metropolitan State College of Denver PO Box 173362 Denver CO 80217-3362 http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl