Re: integration
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- Subject: [mg95972] Re: [mg95952] integration
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:13:32 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Both answers -- yours and the Wolfram Mathematica Online Integrator's -- are correct. If you take the derivative of both, you'll see they are the same at least when b > 0, and at least for some domain of values of x. t.p.nixon at open.ac.uk wrote: > Hi, I don't use mathematica but the other day I wanted to solve an > integral and I'm out of practice so I went on-line to a mathematica > based integrator. > > http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp > > I typed in 1/sqrt(x^2-b^2) this should have an integral of cosh^-1(x/ > b). Ok, so it didn't recognize cosh but its answer was (I think) > wrong. it comes back with ln(x+sqrt(x^2-b^2)) it seems to have > overlooked a quotient of b in the log. > > Is this a general problem with mathematica or just the on-line version > or is it me? > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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