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Re: If Integrate returns no result, can we conclude that no

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• Subject: [mg87822] Re: If Integrate returns no result, can we conclude that no
• From: samuel.blake at maths.monash.edu.au
• Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:38:23 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 17, 9:01 pm, "David W. Cantrell" <DWCantr... at sigmaxi.net>
wrote:
> Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 17 Apr 2008, at 11:33, David W.Cantrell wrote:
> >>> Szabolcs_Horv=E1t <szhor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> The documentation says:
>
> >>> "In the most convenient cases, integrals can be done purely in
> >>> terms of elementary functions such as exponentials, logarithms and
> >>> trigonometric functions. In fact, if you give an integrand that
> >>> involves only such elementary functions, then one of the important
> >>> capabilities of Integrate is that if the corresponding integral
> >>> can be expressed in terms of elementary functions, then Integrate
> >>> will essentially always succeed in finding it."
>
> >>>http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/IntegralsThatCanAnd..=

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