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  • Subject: [mg44374] Re: [mg44257] Integrate...
  • From: Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 05:16:17 -0500 (EST)
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That's an appalling bug, of course. Always sanity-check your outputs in 
Mathematica!

However, NIntegrate gets it right without eliminating the floating point 
1's.

NIntegrate[Abs[1.0*Cos[r]+1.0*Sin[r]],{r,2.35,2.36}]

0.0000373731

Bobby



Integrate...
Subject: [mg44374] [mg44257] Integrate...
From: Sampo Smolander <sampo.smolander+news at helsinki.fi>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Organization: University of Helsinki

Does anybody know why

    Integrate[Abs[1.0*Cos[r] + 1.0*Sin[r]], {r, 2.35, 2.36}]

gives

    -2.82839

whereas without those 1.0's,

    Integrate[Abs[Cos[r] + Sin[r]], {r, 2.35, 2.36}]

gives the correct

    0.000037373

?

(I'm running Mathematica 4.1 on win98.)

-- 
Sampo Smolander ............... http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ssmoland/
Rolf Nevanlinna Institute, University of Helsinki ...................


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