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Re: Please help with a Hypergeometric2F1 problem...

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg23245] Re: Please help with a Hypergeometric2F1 problem...
• From: Ronald Bruck <bruck at math.usc.edu>
• Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:04:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Univ of Southern California
• References: <8e3b5h$kom@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <8e3b5h$kom at smc.vnet.net>, zeno at magicnet.net wrote:

> I symbolically integrated the function..(x^2*(x-1))^(1/3) with respect to
> x.
> 
> There is in the answer... Hypergeometric2F1[2/3,2/3,5/3,x]
> 
> I can do nothing more with that..it just returns it. A Hypergeometric2F1
> with different parameters like Hypergeometric2F1[2,2,5,x] gives an 
> answer. I
> am using version 3. Is Mathematica unable to compute it?
> 
> I can get the Integral with out the Hypergeometric function on the 
> TI-92+,
> (it gives the answer in a different for using Tan, etc.) but I still 
> would
> like to work with the Mathematica answer.
> 

Would you mind sharing the answer which the TI-92+ returns?  I'm 
suspicious...

--Ron Bruck

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