Integrate with explicit integration variable/infetesimal...



edA-qa mort-ora-y wrote:

> Is it possible to get Maxima to automatically integrate expressions of 
> this form:
> 
>     f(i) := (i*di - c);
> 
> That is, a function like integrate that takes three parameters:
> 
>     xintegrate( f(i), i, di );
> 
> Obviously the above case is trivial, but in my equation I can't easily 
> separate out the di term in order to pass the function to integrate (I 
> have an expression in the form of a sum right now, but I want to create 
> the integral instead).
> 
> 

if you have a complicated expression and wish to express it
as  alpha*di + beta

consider ratcoef or bothcoeff or  try dividing by di, and
looking at the quotient and remainder.

RJF