Re: Integrate question
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- Subject: [mg82334] Re: Integrate question
- From: "Oskar Itzinger" <oskar at opec.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
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Ok, Mathematica 2.1 was "mindless" here, but why was it considered to be "wrong"? /oskar "Andrzej Kozlowski" <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote in message news:ff4hpp$k0e$1 at smc.vnet.net... > > The reason is that Mathematica 2.1 was wrong and Mathematica 5.2 is > much more careful and right. What Mathematica 2.1 did here was simply: > > Subtract @@ (Integrate[x/(3 x^2 - 1)^3, x] /. {{x -> 1}, {x -> 0}}) > 1/16 > > in other words, it applied the Newton-Leibnitz rule in a mindless > way.
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