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Benny
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Intriguing integrals
« on: May 11th, 2010, 1:20am » |
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Is the standard formula for the integral of x^k really the best one? Chris Sangwin makes an interesting case that it is not.
http://plus.maths.org/issue54/features/sangwin2/index.html
Exercise:
Write 1/x = (1/x^3) * x^2
Integrate the right hand side by parts. Explain why this, and any similar method, fails to find the integral of 1/x
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