Hi - I got the limit to evaluate by using numer:true !
Dave Holmgren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Rottler [SMTP:rottler at emerald]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:33 PM
> To: michel.gosse@freesbee.fr
> Cc: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] integrate
>
> Hello,
>
> This is what happened when I tried it under maxima5.6 with gcl.
>
> ***************
> (C2) integrate(1/cos(x)^2,x,0,%PI/4);
>
> Division by 0
> -- an error. Quitting. To debug this try DEBUGMODE(TRUE);)
> (C3)
> ***************
>
> On the other hand I built both gcl and maxima from sources on
> the old UT site so if someone has a patch for this please let me
> know. Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Lee
>
> Gosse Michel wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > With maxima 5.6, the following command :
> >
> > integrate(1/cos(x)^2,x,0,%PI/4);
> > give the answer :
> > lim(x->0) tan(x+%PI/4)
> >
> > I would expect that maxima returns the real 1, because it is a very
> > classical function to integrate.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > ****************************
> > Michel Gosse
> > michel.gosse@ac-poitiers.fr
> > michel.gosse@freesbee.fr
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