Re: Question about Integrate and If
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- Subject: [mg46649] Re: Question about Integrate and If
- From: phbrf at t-online.de (Peter Breitfeld)
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:53:56 -0500 (EST)
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Antonio González <SPAMgonferNO at esi.us.es> wrote:
> Setting the trivial integral
>
> Integrate[1/x,{x,a,2a}]
[*snip*]
>
> Integrate[1/x, {x, a, 2*a}, Assumptions -> a != 0]
>
> the result is
>
> If[Im[a] != 0 || Re[a] != 0, Log[2], Integrate[x^(-1), {x, a, 2*a},
> Assumptions -> a != 0 && Im[a] == 0 && Re[a] == 0]]
>
> that is even worse, as if I assume that a!=0, it is
> obvious that Im[a] != 0 || Re[a] != 0 (how could it be
> that a != 0 && Im[a] == 0 && Re[a] == 0 ?)
>
> Can anybody explain this strange behavior? Why does not give
> the answer
>
> If[a!= 0, Log[2],Indeterminate]
>
> or something like that?
>
> Antonio
That's really strange, but the Assumption->{a<0||a>0} gives the right
result.
--
Gruß Peter
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