Re: Strange "not a symbol or valid symbol name" error
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- Subject: [mg60238] Re: Strange "not a symbol or valid symbol name" error
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kmccann at umbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 04:53:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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I tried this and Mathematica does not find a closed form answer, but will do it
numerically. I am not sure about your error, unless you have defined x
previously. Try x=. before you integrate to see if this is the problem.
Kevin
Flip wrote:
> Greetings all, I'm using Mathematica 5.0 and have been getting a
> strange error message:
>
> Unique::usym :
> 10000000000 is not a symbol or a valid symbol name
>
> This comes from the following integral:
>
> Integrate[E^(-x) Sqrt[x^2-9], {x,3,5}]
>
> The limits of integration don't matter much so long as they keep the
> integrand real.
>
> I don't understand this and am not quite sure how to fix the problem.
> (It's a well defined definite integral, right? It's real in the domain
> of integration and nondivergent.)
>
> Thanks,
> Flip
>