integrate: is this question a bug?

• Subject: integrate: is this question a bug?
• From: Edwin Woollett
• Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:01:36 -0700

Hi Mailing List,

Maxima asks an apparently meaningless question for the following definite integral:

(using v. 12.0 with windows xp)

(%i1) myint: integrate( exp( sqrt(x) ), x, 1, 5);

Is  yx  positive or negative?

p;
Is  yx - 1  positive, negative, or zero?

p;
                                                          sqrt(5)
(%o1)                      2 (sqrt(5) - 1) %e

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Are these questions a bug??

Ted Woollett

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