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Mathematica integration Vs Sympy

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• Subject: [mg130542] Mathematica integration Vs Sympy
• From: Sergio R <sergiorquestion at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello all,

   Just for fun a put an integral I was doing via mathematica
WolframAlpha
[  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Integrate[1%2F%28x*%281-a*%281-x%29%29%29%2Cx]
]
into the online sympy [ http://live.sympy.org/ ] console
the following:

a = Symbol('a'); g = 1/(x*(1-a*(1-x))) ; u=simplify(integrate(g,x))

Then, to display the result, at the sympy ">>>" prompt, type u
and hit return.

  To my surprise,  sympy seems to give the right result without any
assumption, while mathematica's result seems to assume a>1, which is
not specified. Also for this case (a>1) sympy gives an extra constant
which is not present in the mathematica result.

Is there a way to make mathematica to output a general result like
sympy
in this case?

Sergio

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