stupid question from integrate?



Daniel Lakeland <dlakelan <at> street-artists.org> writes:

> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:09:27PM +0000, miguel lopez wrote:
> 
> >   I think that there is  a long life for  mathematician, 
>just not to be replaced  by a computer program :).
> > 
> >   Best wishes to the list.
> 
> Indeed. I think it should be possible to prove that:
if
> integral(f(x),x,0,inf) diverges then
 integral(periodic_function(x) *  f(x)) should also diverge.

 but I haven't tried yet.
> 
> In any case, I'll file this as a bug ...
> 
   You can not prove it: it is false:

  
    f(x) = 1/x diverge,  f(x) * sin(x) = sin(x)/x converge.
    (30 seconds time in ultramaxima code, to discover this  :)