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Re: A bug in Reduce package 'algint'?
Posted:
Jan 21, 2013 4:16 PM
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On 21.01.2013 19:55, clicliclic@freenet.de wrote:
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> Wanting to refresh my knowledge of the capabilties of the Reduce algebra
> system, I have recently browsed the website. The system comes with the
> 'algint' package by J. Davenport which boosts the integrator
> capabilities for algebraic functions. The package documentation
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> <http://www.reduce-algebra.com/docs/algint.pdf>
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> introduces the example integrand sqrt(sqrt(a^2 + x^2) + x)/x. A correct
> antiderivative for this is
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> 2*(sqrt(sqrt(a^2 + x^2) + x)
> - sqrt(a)*atanh(sqrt(sqrt(a^2 + x^2) + x)/sqrt(a))
> - sqrt(a)*atan(sqrt(sqrt(a^2 + x^2) + x)/sqrt(a)))
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> The antiderivative printed in the documentation, however, is either very
> wrong or garbled beyond recognition.
>
> Martin.
Maple 16 returns 2*sqrt(2*x)*hypergeom([-1/4, -1/4, 1/4],[1/2, 3/4],-a^2/x^2)
May be right, but not that 'usefull' w.r.t. your result
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