Dear list,
I would like to use Taylor expansions to approximate integrals and
I see the following problem:
this trivial case works as expected, yielding p(0) l
pT : taylor(p(s),s,0,0);
pT : ratsimp(pT);
pbar : integrate(pT,s,-l/2,l/2);
but when I take
pT : taylor(p(s),s,0,1);
pT : ratsimp(pT);
pbar : integrate(pT,s,-l/2,l/2);
maxima starts computing and never delivers any result. Does anyone
have a suggestion?
Thank you!
Marco