Re: Integrate without Simplify
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- Subject: [mg43949] Re: Integrate without Simplify
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:59:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <bl0urk$405$1 at smc.vnet.net>, k.junk at verizon.net (Kevin VW) wrote: > I have about 10000 term in a list that I want to integrate. Let me guess -- each term is of certain form? And can this particular form be integrated in a generic fashion? If so, then you can, and should, use pattern-matching to perform the integral. For example, if you have 10000 terms of the form x^n Exp[-a x] with different n and a, and you need to compute the integral with respect to x over [0,Infinity). The generic integral is then n! / a^(n+1) and the 10000 term list can be integrated by pattern-matching longlist /. x^(n_) Exp[a_ x] :> n! / (-a)^(n+1) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 9380 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 9380 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul