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Re: Integration Problem

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  • Subject: [mg126367] Re: Integration Problem
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 22:25:53 -0400 (EDT)
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The reason is that 1/10 is an exact number whereas 0.1 is an approximate 
real number.

On 5/3/12 4:34 AM, Michael Musheghian wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I found that evaluation of this 2 integrals yield a bit different result. What could be the reason?
>
> Integrate[E^(-1/10 ((1 + r2z)^2)), {r2z, -Infinity, Infinity}]
>
> Integrate[E^(-0.1 ((1 + r2z)^2)), {r2z, -Infinity, Infinity}]
>

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