On 4/14/07, Detlef Schmicker <d.schmicker at physik.de> wrote:
> if I use a self defined function
> dint(f,v,a,b):=subst(b,v,integrate(f,v))-subst(a,v,integrate(f,v));
>
> instead of integrate for the integral with bounds, no questions are ask,
> and the result seems to be OK.
>
> Is there a reason, build in integral is working differently?
Maxima's algorithms for definite integrals are mostly different
from the algorithms for indefinite integrals. Maxima might try
to evaluate a definite integral via the fundamental theorem of
calculus but usually it tries other methods first (if I recall correctly).
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier