Re: Is the answer for this Integral correct???
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- Subject: [mg54302] Re: Is the answer for this Integral correct???
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:36:31 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
- References: <curuei$t3l$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, the Log[] of a real argument is not defined for x<=0 and the whole integral does not converge for x<=0 Regards Jens "zeno" <zeno333 at mindspring.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:curuei$t3l$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Using Mathematica 4.2, I get the answer of 0 for this Integral.... > > Integrate[Log[x]/x, {x, -1 , 1}] > > Is this the correct answer??? > > Mathemtica output below...... > ___________________________ > > In[3]:= (21:43:17 on 2/14/05 > Integrate[Log[x]/x, {x, -1 ,1}] > > Out[3]= (21:43:17 on 2/14/05) > 0 >