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  • Subject: [mg94655] mathematica errors
  • From: alan2 <hong_alan at smc.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:23:12 -0500 (EST)

A few years ago I evaluated Int(0,pi/2,1/[1+(tan(x)^sqrt(2))] with mathematica and got a beautiful but wrong answer.  If you ask it to approximate it numerically it gives the correct approximation of pi/4.  Have they corrected this and what is going on?


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