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Re: slow integration

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  • Subject: [mg29958] Re: slow integration
  • From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:28:24 -0400 (EDT)
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I'm not sure that you really understand the problem. (I *am* sure that I do
not understand the problem.) Note that, without the Gaussian factor in the
integrand, the integral is evaluated without delay:

In[1]:=
Timing[InputForm[Integrate[Erf[400 (z/x-.002)],{x,0,.03}]]]
Out[1]=
{0.45 Second,Integrate[Erf[400*(-0.002 + z/x)], {x, 0, 0.03}]}


On 19/7/01 9:26 am, in article 9j65j1$2gh$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Tomas Garza"
<tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:

> You will not get any result. I guess the problem is that Erf[z] doesn't have
> a closed form and it remains expressed as a definite integral.
> 
> Tomas Garza
> Mexico City
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg29958]  slow integration
> 
> 
>> In[1]:=
>> $Version
>> Out[1]=
>> 4.1 for Power Macintosh (November 2, 2000)
>> 
>> Does anyone out there understand why, after two hours, the following still
>> hasn't produced any output?
>> 
>> In[2]:=
>> Integrate[E^(-100000 (.03-x)^2)Erf[400 (z/x-.002)],{x,0,.03}]
>> 
>> js
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>> 
> 
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