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Re: False result with Integrate ?

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  • Subject: [mg8729] Re: False result with Integrate ?
  • From: "Stephen P Luttrell" <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 22:27:58 -0400
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Gilles BARBIER <Gilles.Barbier at der.edfgdf.fr> wrote in article
<5vt8tj$gjg at smc.vnet.net>...
>      Why : Integrate[Integrate[ Sqrt[(x-y)^2],{x,0,1}],{y,0,1}]
>      gives 0 with math2.2 or math3.0.
>      
>      The exact result is 1/3 !!

It seems that Mathematica is simplifying Sqrt[(x-y)^2] to x-y.

Try the following way of doing your integral:

2 Integrate[Integrate[ x-y,{x,y,1}],{y,0,1}]

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