>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Lakeland <dlakelan at street-artists.org> writes:
Daniel> Today I was playing around with the concept of absolute integrability:
Daniel> integrate(sin(x)/x,x,0,inf) gives %pi/2
Daniel> integrate(abs(sin(x)/x),x,0,inf) asks the seemingly stupid question:
Daniel> Is ind positive, negative, or zero?
Daniel> the user has absolutely no idea what maxima is asking... I'm going to
Daniel> assume that it has something to do with a change of variable deep
Daniel> within the integrator... but it's completely opaque to me.
FWIW, maxima is trying to compute the limit of abs(sin(x))/(x*sin(x))
as x goes to infinity. I didn't look to see how it got to this point,
though.
Daniel> Any suggestions? I can file a bug if necessary but I'd like to flesh
Daniel> out what the bug should say :-)
Please do. This email is good enough to get the gist of the problem.