Re: Trouble with Integrate
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- Subject: [mg39275] Re: [mg39264] Trouble with Integrate
- From: Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 03:08:02 -0500 (EST)
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With version 4.2 I get the same answers as you for Integrate[f, {x, 0,
Infinity}] and NIntegrate[f, {x, 0, Infinity}], but Integrate[1/(Sqrt[1 +
x^4] + x^2), {x, 0, Infinity}] is not evaluated.
Bobby
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 03:08:30 -0500 (EST), Marko Vojinovic
<vojinovi at panet.co.yu> wrote:
> Consider the function:
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> f = Sqrt[1+x^4] -x^2
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> Upon asking to
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> Integrate[f,{x,0,Infinity}]
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> Mathematica 4.0 answers:
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> -Infinity
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> which is not correct. However,
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> NIntegrate[f,{x,0,Infinity}]
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> gives the correct (numerical) answer:
> 1.23605
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> The correct (analytical, i.e.. exact) answer to the integral is:
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> Gamma[1/4] Gamma[1/4] / 6 Sqrt[Pi]
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> which can be obtained after some paperwork. However, if I ask
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> Integrate[1/(Sqrt[1+x^4] + x^2),{x,0,Infinity}]
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> (this integrand is equivalent to f) one gets a complicated answer in
> terms
> of EllipticF. Meanwhile, when I ask Mathematica 3.0 the same set of
> questions, I get correct answers, and analytical integration gives answer
> in
> terms of Gamma. Two questions:
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> 1) Why does version 4.0 give so fairly incorrect result "-Infinity" for
> the
> first integral?
> 2) How can I 'switch off' the use of elliptic functions and/or 'force'
> Mathematica to use Gamma?
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> Thanks,
> Marko
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Bobby R. Treat
- References:
- Trouble with Integrate
- From: "Marko Vojinovic" <vojinovi@panet.co.yu>
- Trouble with Integrate