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Integral confusion

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  • Subject: [mg107262] Integral confusion
  • From: Jon Joseph <josco.jon at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 06:12:45 -0500 (EST)

All: Is this integral wrong? If not could someone explain the minus sign 
inside the log?

Integrate[1/(x + 1) - 1/(x + 6), x] // Simplify

log(-2 (x + 1)) - log(2 (x + 6))

Thanks, Jon.=


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