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Re: Re: Nasty bug in Integrate (version 5.0)

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  • Subject: [mg46044] Re: [mg46025] Re: Nasty bug in Integrate (version 5.0)
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:20:48 -0500 (EST)
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On 3 Feb 2004, at 09:20, Math User wrote:

>> 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...
>
>
>
Perhaps you should read agian my posting. My argumnt was that there 
are two problems here and you do not tell us which you want to solve. 
The problem that you asked Mathematica to solve was to determine the 
conditions for convergence of this integral in the compelx plane. It's 
not a trivial problem.

Andrzej


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