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Re: More integration/ fullsimplify bugs in Mathematica 4.1

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  • Subject: [mg41682] Re: More integration/ fullsimplify bugs in Mathematica 4.1
  • From: Bill Rowe <listuser at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 03:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
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On 5/29/03 at 8:14 AM, fateman at cs.berkeley.edu (Richard Fateman) wrote:

> Integrate[1/(a*x^2 + b*x + c/4)^n, x]
> FullSimplify[%]
> D[%,x]
> InputForm[FullSimplify[%]] ==>
> 
>   (4^n*(-1 + n)*Gamma[1 - n]*
>    (-1 + (1/2 + (b + 2*a*x)/(2*Sqrt[b^2 - a*c]))^n*
>    (-1 + Gamma[2 - n])*Hypergeometric2F1Regularized[
>     1 - n, n, 2 - n, 1/2 - (b + 2*a*x)/
>       (2*Sqrt[b^2 - a*c])]))/(c + 4*True*(b + a*True))^n

> notice the denominator has some variable "True" in it.

FWIW, I don't see this using version 4.2.1.0 with Mac OS 10.2.6. The results of the differention step match the integrand in the first step.


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