Re: Nasty bug in Integrate (version 5.0)
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- Subject: [mg46025] Re: Nasty bug in Integrate (version 5.0)
- From: mathuser7 at hotmail.com (Math User)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:20:56 -0500 (EST)
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> What I intended to indicate to in my original reply was that the > person who posted the message did not make clear what he wanted: to > report a bug or to find a way to solve his problem, and if the latter, > then what sort of answer he wanted. If he wanted the answer one gets by > setting GenerateConditions->False then that's the best way to do it (or > by simply computing the indefinite integral, which is in fact what I > would do). Sorry I wasn't clear -- my intention was to report the bug. I can integrate 1/x, thank you :-) The example I posted is symptomatic of a problem with Integrate that I stumbled upon while solving a more complicated problem. I intentionally kept it trivial to make it obvious. This said, I don't quite understand your argument that it's somehow okay for Mathematica to give the wrong answer on a trivial problem because no sensible person should use it to solve such a problem...
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