Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
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> Does nothing helpful, but if you type
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> 'integrate( (A-r)*w^(R-1), w, 1, W);
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> and then evaluate with
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> %, nouns
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> you get the expected integral.
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> Is this behaviour expected? Is there a way around it? Here's the
I believe this is the expected behavior. For definite integrals, maxima
does not use convert the integral of a sum to a sum of integrals. In
general, it's wrong. In this particular case it's ok, but maxima
doesn't know that.
Ray