Re: Another strange bug in Mathematica 4.0's Integrate
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- Subject: [mg25371] Re: Another strange bug in Mathematica 4.0's Integrate
- From: Hendrik van Hees <h.vanhees at gsi.de>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 16:29:06 -0400 (EDT)
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It's funny what the CA-fans argue and don't admit that a bug is a bug.
If I put in
Integrate[Sqrt[r^2-x^2],{x,-r,r},Assumptions->{r>0}]
this is a well defined expression in terms of a real integral. The
square root is positive because the principle value is realised
(according to the online documentation). Further as long as I do not
tell the path of integration it must be a real integral, otherwise
Integrate is not well defined!
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