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Re: Constant function Integrate Assumption

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• Subject: [mg47219] Re: Constant function Integrate Assumption
• From: "Peter Pein" <no at spam.no>
• Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 02:57:43 -0500 (EST)
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"Daryl Reece" <dsr14 at Cornell.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I am trying to use units within an Integration and would like
> Mathematica to understand that the units (Month) are not a function of
> the integration variable, but I have not had any luck with my
> attempts.
>
> Specifically
>
> Integrate[UnitStep[t Months], t]
>
> should yield
>
> t UnitStep[t]
>
> but I get the unevaluated form, because Mathematica does not know how to
> assume that Month is not a function of t.
>
> I've tried Assumptions, SetAttribute, Replace...to no avail.  I've
> also hunted extensively online (Wolfram, this group and MathGroup)
> without any results, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Daryl
>

In[1]:= Months /: t Months = t;
In[2]:= Integrate[UnitStep[t Months], t]
Out[2]= t UnitStep[t]

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Peter Pein, Berlin
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