Re: Rookie question
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- Subject: [mg23690] Re: Rookie question
- From: Harald Giese <giese at ifm.uni-hamburg.de>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:24:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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Jose M Lasso wrote:
>
> I try to calculate the following expression:
> Integrate[1/(2(1-x^2)^(1/2)+(1-x^2)),{x,0,1}], but Mathematica dont give me
> an answer, the program return the original input, do u have any ideas.
Hi Jose,
Mathematica 4.0 on Windows NT gives: Pi/(3*Sqrt[3]).
Version 3.0 on Solaris complains about an Indeterminate expression, but
returns the same result.
Regards,
Harald
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