Re: NIntegrate
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- Subject: [mg36521] Re: NIntegrate
- From: Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl at jet2web.cc>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 03:27:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Inst. f. Mechanics II, TU Vienna
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"Rob_jack" <rob_jackNSP at libero.it> writes: > Hello! > > I've this problem with NIntegrate: > ********************************************** > In[1]=f[y_,z_]: = (y^4/( (1+(8.44*10^-4)^2 * (1+z)^2 y^2) (Exp[z]+1) ) > > In[2]=F[z_]: = NIntegrate[f[y,z], {z, 0, Infinity} > ********************************************** > > Mathematica 4.0 says: > > **************************************************************************** > * > NIntegrate: : inum : Integrand 1.07577/( 1+7.12336*10^-7 (1. + z)^2 ) is not > numerical at {y}={1.}. > **************************************************************************** > ** > > What is it?? > Hello, I doubt that you could input your equations as you stated: The first input has a missing ) The second one a missing ] In both equations there should be no space in := Apart from that the second definitions doesn't seem to make much sense, maybe it should be F[y_] := ... Have you assigned y some value before (I get a different error message, when I mix up the y and z as you did.) Good luck Alois -- Alois Steindl, Tel.: +43 (1) 58801 / 32558 Inst. for Mechanics II, Fax.: +43 (1) 58801 / 32598 Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10