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Re: Maybe it's me but the integrator at wolfram doesn't work very well

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  • Subject: [mg45003] Re: Maybe it's me but the integrator at wolfram doesn't work very well
  • From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:42:22 -0500 (EST)
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Having never heard of the "integrator tool" (a link might be helpful),
I can only give the right answers:

Integrate[Log[x]/x, x]

Log[x]^2/2

Integrate[Log[x], x]

-x + x*Log[x]

Bobby

geoman <geogeo9090 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<br9i4v$d22$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Firstly the "integrator" tool at wolfram evaluates the indefinite integral. Fine
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> Here are some examples of incorrect answers of the "integrator"
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> INT means the integral sign
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> INT 1 / x ln x
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> Don't feel bad though I found another site at mss.vanderbilt.edu that got it wrong as well
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> Now this is quite a fundamental integral but is it hopelessly botched by the "integrator."
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> Here is another
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> INT ln x
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> the "integrator" got that wrong as well.  I did find a site that got it right though.
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> Where the error lies I don't know but do in fact think it may be somewhere in the original mathematica code.
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> BTW can anyone on this list give me the correct answers to the above
> thanks  geo.


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