Re: How to get the real part of an integral?
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- Subject: [mg48471] Re: How to get the real part of an integral?
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 03:02:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <c9ebrg$g72$1 at smc.vnet.net>, ankowar at yahoo.com (Andy Kowar)
wrote:
> I am trying to get the real part of an integral (see below).
>
>
> << Algebra`ReIm`
> Integrate[1/(1 + x^2 + x^4), x]
> Re[%]
>
> I am getting the error:
> "$IterationLimit::itlim: Iteration limit of 4096 exceeded."
>
>
> Any advice?
Don't use Algebra`ReIm`. The following works fine:
Integrate[1/(1 + x^2 + x^4), x]
Simplify[ComplexExpand[Re[%], TargetFunctions -> {Re, Im}]]
Cheers,
Paul
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