NestList integration bug?
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- Subject: [mg117518] NestList integration bug?
- From: Jon Joseph <josco.jon at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:16:57 -0500 (EST)
All: Please comment on the following code:
The following input: NestList[Integrate[#, {t, a, x }] &, m, 5]
(* m is a constant *)
results in {m, m(-a + x), m (-a + x)^2, m (-a + x)^3, m (-a + x)^4, m
(-a + x)^5}
which is missing the divisors as a result of the integration. However,
doing the integral indefinitely:
NestList[Integrate[#, x] &, m, 5] results in
{m, m x, (m x^2)/2, (m x^3)/6, (m x^4)/24, (m x^5)/120}
which is correct.
What am I missing?
"7.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 19, 2009)"
Jon