Re: Integration
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- Subject: [mg44437] Re: Integration
- From: akhmel at hotmail.com (Alex)
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 06:01:25 -0500 (EST)
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Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote in message news:<boif1p$o9u$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > The former. This is what is meant by "in principle". There are lot's of > algorithms that work "in principle" but it is very easy to produce > fairly "simple looking" cases where no answer can be expected during > the life-time of the user (or sometimes even mankind). > > The fact that Mathematica does not arrive at an answer before the > user's patience is exhausted or his computer runs out of memory does > not mean, of course, that Mathematica's implementation of an algorithm > is incomplete. > > Andrzej Kozlowski For God's sake, of course one could imagine an integral which would take lifetime to compute. I am talking about mine which is rather simple and I computed it manually. How can one justify Mathematica not being able to handle it? Something is very bloody wrong with their implementation of their algorithm. Alex
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