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Now I understand that it was an input problem!!

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• Subject: [mg45004] Now I understand that it was an input problem!!
• From: geoman <geogeo9090 at yahoo.com>
• Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:42:27 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

The integrator at wolfram finally after two weeks of cursing and  Emails and the like, evaluates the following integral properly
 
1/(x Log[x])  =  Log[Log[x]]
 
or
 
1/(x*Log[x])  =  Log[Log[x]]
 
notice that contrary to some responses I had to include two curved braces as shown.
 
Satisfied? NO
 
Mathematica is way too case sensitive 
 
The problem was that I was entering integrals like this:
 
log[x]
 
LOG[x]
 
But mathematica WANTS 
 Log[x]     groan!!!
 
Mathematica could have saved two weeks of trouble if it had just said "Incorrect format"
 
 
 
 
 
 

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